Follow-Up: Singapore's MHA Says Evidence Against Alice Huang Was Insufficient; She Was Sternly Warned and Barred From Re-Entry for Giving Police Inaccurate Information
Singapore's Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) issued a statement on November 12 setting out, for the first time in full, how the Singapore Police Force (SPF) investigated Megaspeed and Alice Huang (Huang Le). The statement said that in February 2026, the SPF, in consultation with the Attorney-General's Chambers, concluded there was insufficient evidence to establish that Huang had committed any offences relating to the possible inaccurate declarations for which Megaspeed was being investigated. However, Huang was assessed to have provided information she knew to be inaccurate to the SPF during the investigations, to downplay her role in Megaspeed. She was issued a stern warning and barred from re-entering Singapore. Her passport was returned on February 26, 2026, and she departed Singapore the same day.
According to the MHA, in February 2025 the SPF and Singapore Customs opened an independent investigation into several companies and their key officers, including Megaspeed International Pte Ltd and its controllers, over suspected false declarations in relation to the purchase of servers and other related offences. Minister for Home Affairs K Shanmugam said at a press conference on March 3, 2025, that Singapore's investigations were not based on any request from any country or sovereign entity. Huang, a Hong Kong resident, was investigated given her position at the time as chief executive, chairperson and one of the key controllers of Megaspeed. The ministry stated expressly that she was not based in Singapore and was not investigated for espionage.
On June 24, 2025, the U.S. Bureau of Industry and Security conducted a voluntary post-shipment verification check at Megaspeed with Huang present, the first time Singapore learned of the U.S. interest in Megaspeed and Huang, the statement said. The SPF interviewed Huang the same day, and her passport was impounded under Section 112 of Singapore's Criminal Procedure Code 2010 to secure her attendance for the investigations, as she was not based in Singapore.
The physical servers, the MHA said, had been bought by the companies under investigation and exported through Singapore to Malaysia without entering the Singapore market. The SPF was investigating whether the servers were subsequently routed from Malaysia to another destination, contrary to the declarations made in Singapore, and sought information from the United States and other destination jurisdictions.
The statement also disclosed that the SPF sought information relating to Supermicro, a U.S.-based server supplier, and that Supermicro provided limited cooperation. At a meeting on July 7, 2025, the SPF and the Attorney-General's Chambers raised the matter with U.S. authorities; since September 2025 the SPF repeated the request several times to the U.S. Department of Justice and the FBI, but to date Singapore has received limited information or assistance in respect of the company.
The SPF's investigations into Megaspeed and six other individuals are ongoing, the MHA said, and none of the six has been in Singapore since the investigations began in February 2025. Between February 2025 and July 2026, Singapore charged four individuals and four companies in court with offences including fraud by false representation in relation to the purchase of servers, each carrying an imprisonment term of up to 20 years.
The MHA said Singapore takes its reputation as a trusted international trading and business hub seriously and upholds the rule of law. Singapore does not enforce unilateral export controls imposed by other countries, but expects companies operating in Singapore to take such regulations into account, and does not condone companies using their association with Singapore to circumvent or violate other countries' export controls through fraud or dishonest practices; where there is evidence of breaches of Singapore law, it will take firm action. Singapore will conduct its own investigations independently, in accordance with its laws and based on the evidence available, and will cooperate with foreign authorities where appropriate, the statement said.
Huang is a former Megaspeed executive. On the same day, Nvidia announced that its board had accepted Jensen Huang's resignation as president, chief executive and board member, effective immediately, and Taiwan's interior ministry revoked Alice Huang's entry permit.
Related: Follow-Up: Taiwan Revokes Alice Huang's Entry Permit, Interior Minister Says She Cannot Return
Source: Singapore Ministry of Home Affairs
Published by GSM · USA (original Chinese edition)
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