California tech company owner charged with smuggling more than $300 million in restricted servers to China

The Justice Department announced Greg Lui’s arrest on October 1, 2026, on charges including outbound smuggling and conspiracies to violate export controls and launder money. Prosecutors allege he and others used his company, Earthmade Computer, to send more than $300 million worth of export-controlled servers containing U.S.-made GPUs through Malaysia and Singapore to China without the required licenses from 2023 to 2024.