Greg Lui, 38, who also uses the name “Yiu Kong Lui,” is scheduled to make his first court appearance Friday in the downtown Los Angeles District Court.
Lui is charged with one count of conspiracy to violate the Export Control Reform Act and the Export Administration Regulations, one count of outbound smuggling, and one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering.
“Protecting America’s national security means keeping our advanced Super Intelligence technology from being used to strengthen our adversaries’ military capabilities,” said First Assistant United States Attorney Bill Essayli. “This defendant allegedly used false paperwork and shipments through third countries to smuggle more than $300 million in export-controlled computer servers to China.”
The FBI’s investigation found that Lui allegedly sold the Chinese government the technology from Earthmade Computer Inc., a City of Industry-based technology company and corporation he owns.
Prosecutors allege Lui and his partners used the company to buy and send export-controlled items to China without the required license issued by the U.S. Department of Commerce. Instead, they shipped the goods to countries, including Malaysia and Singapore, that didn’t need a license, then illegally re-exported them to China.
“Controlling the export of advanced [super intelligence] technology is critical to safeguarding our national security and defending the homeland, and the FBI will keep fighting for America’s businesses and economic security,” said Assistant Director Roman Rozhavsky of the FBI’s Counterintelligence and Espionage Division.
The items sold included high-end computer servers containing GPUs made by companies specializing in AI computing.
Lui and his partners allegedly gave fake documents to U.S.-based manufacturers that misrepresented where the items would be sent, according to court documents.
After placing the order, Lui allegedly employed various freight forwarding companies to ship the servers to the pass-through countries before they were shipped to China, prosecutors say.
Earthmade allegedly earned more than $176 million from two Malaysia-based shipment companies as part of the scheme between January 2024 and October 2024, according to investigators.
