Alice Huang, a former CEO and controller of Megaspeed International, has received a stern warning from police and been barred from re-entering Singapore, the Ministry of Home Affairs said Thursday.
In a statement, the ministry said Alice was not charged. The Singapore Police Force found insufficient evidence that she committed offenses. However, the force did find that Alice gave police information she knew to be inaccurate, in order to downplay her role. This led to the warning and entry ban.
The Singapore Police Force and Singapore Customs began an independent investigation in February 2025 into several companies and their key officers, including Singapore-incorporated Megaspeed. The suspected offenses concern possible false declarations in the purchase of servers and related matters. The investigation was not based on a request from any other country or sovereign entity.
Huang, a Hong Kong resident, was investigated because of her position as Megaspeed’s CEO, chairperson and one of its key controllers at the time. She was not investigated for espionage.
On June 24, 2025, the US Bureau of Industry and Security carried out a voluntary post-shipment check at Megaspeed with Huang present. Police interviewed her the same day and impounded her passport, because she was not based in Singapore. Police returned the passport on February 26, 2026 and she left the country that day.
The government says the servers were bought by companies under investigation and exported through Singapore to Malaysia without entering the Singapore market. Police are investigating whether they were then routed from Malaysia to another destination, contrary to declarations made in Singapore.
To check this, police sought records from the US and other countries, including the server supplier Supermicro. The Singapore Police Force noted that Supermicro provided limited cooperation and repeated requests to US authorities for help have so far produced limited information.
The investigations into Megaspeed and six other people are ongoing and none of the six has been in Singapore since February 2025.
The force has charged four individuals and four companies in court between February 2025 and July 2026 with offenses including fraud by false representation in relation to server purchases. Each of those offenses carries up to 20 years’ imprisonment.
According to the statement, Singapore does not enforce unilateral export controls imposed by other countries. But Singapore expects companies to take such controls into account in their international business and does not condone circumventing other countries’ controls through fraud or dishonest practices.
Megaspeed says it takes its US export-control obligations seriously. In a statement dated November 12, Megaspeed said it has cooperated with inspections by the US Bureau of Industry and Security and has retained a US law firm to census its graphics processing units and verify its compliance. It says it has no evidence of violations and welcomes scrutiny.
In Malaysia, the Ministry of Investment, Trade and Industry said it had never cleared Megaspeed or its Malaysian affiliate, Speedmatrix. It is working with customs authorities to establish whether any AI chips brought into Malaysia were later re-exported, and whether any such re-exports complied with Malaysian law.
Malaysia checking chip re-export, Singapore-based Megaspeed not yet cleared