California Tech Company Owner Charged in Alleged $300 Million GPU Server Export and Money Laundering Scheme

U.S. authorities arrested California technology company owner Greg Lui on October 1, 2026 on a three-count federal indictment alleging a scheme to smuggle more than $300 million in export-controlled computer servers containing advanced U.S.-manufactured graphics processing units to China.

Lui, also known as Yiu Kong Lui, is charged with conspiracy to violate U.S. export-control laws, outbound smuggling, and conspiracy to commit money laundering. The charges are allegations and Lui is presumed innocent unless proven guilty.

According to the indictment, Lui owns Earthmade Computer Inc. Prosecutors allege that from 2023 to 2024 Lui and co-conspirators used the company to purchase export-controlled servers and route them through countries including Malaysia and Singapore before re-exporting them to China without required U.S. licenses. The indictment alleges that documentation supplied to U.S. manufacturers misrepresented intended end users and destinations.

The Justice Department said Earthmade received more than $176 million from two Malaysia-based shipment companies between January and October 2024 as part of the alleged scheme. Prosecutors also described a January 2024 transaction involving 27 export-controlled servers purchased for approximately $7.6 million and shipped from Los Angeles to Kuala Lumpur; a co-conspirator later allegedly told a Malaysian government official that the servers had been transshipped to a China-based buyer.

If convicted, Lui faces statutory maximum penalties of 20 years on the export-control conspiracy count, 20 years on the money-laundering conspiracy count and 10 years on the smuggling count.

Source

U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Public Affairs, October 1, 2026.