SINGAPORE – Bail has been offered to three men allegedly linked to computer servers exported to Malaysia that might contain Nvidia chips.

Chinese national Li Ming, 51, was offered bail of $1 million, while Singaporean Alan Wei Zhaolun, 48, was offered bail of $800,000.

Aaron Woon Guo Jie, 40, also a Singaporean, was offered bail of $600,000.

Li faces two charges – one of fraud and one under the Computer Misuse Act.

Woon and Wei each face two fraud charges.

Li is accused of committing fraud on Supermicro, a supplier of servers, by claiming in 2023 that the end user of the servers would be a company he controlled, called Luxuriate Your Life.

He also allegedly accessed an OCBC corporate bank account without authorisation to make and receive transfers for Luxuriate Your Life, on June 19, 2024. 

Woon and Wei are accused of being in a criminal conspiracy to commit fraud on two suppliers of servers, Dell and Supermicro. 

They allegedly made false representations in 2024 that the servers would not be transferred to a person other than the authorised end users.

The pair worked at Aperia Cloud Services, a Singapore-based technology company. Wei was the company’s chief executive and Woon its chief operating officer.

In court on March 13, Li’s lawyer Wendell Wong did not contest the $1 million amount for the bail, but said he is reserving the right to revisit this in the future.

He also clarified with the prosecution aspects of the conditions of bail it was imposing.

This included information about “exclusion zones” that Li would be not allowed to go to, as well as the prosecution witnesses he was not permitted to interact with.

The prosecution said the “exclusion zones” included immigration points, including Woodlands Checkpoint and Changi Airport.

It added that Li’s wife was a person of interest in investigations and Li should not speak to her about evidence and investigations related to the case.

Wei’s lawyer Shashi Nathan and Woon’s lawyer Rajan Sanjiv Kumar asked the court for lower bail amounts for their clients, noting they were local residents and had roots here.

In response, the prosecution said they face serious charges, and the Commercial Affairs Department had uncovered two su...