By Bing Hong Lok SINGAPORE (Reuters) -Servers used in a fraud case that Singapore announced last week were supplied by U.S. firms and may have contained Nvidia's advanced chips, a government minister said on Monday.

The news of the arrests in Singapore comes just one month after officials in the US announced they were specifically probing whether DeepSeek was working with third parties in Singapore to get its hands on Nvidia chips. If the reports are to be believed, it appears they may have found their answer.

Singapore charged three men with fraud in a case domestic media have linked to the movement of Nvidia's advanced chips from the city state to Chinese artificial intelligence firm DeepSeek.

Singapore is investigating a fraud case involving servers potentially containing Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA) AI chips, which were supplied by U.S. firms before being transferred to Malaysia. Authorities suspect links to

Singapore authorities have initiated an investigation into potential fraudulent activities related to the shipment of Nvidia Corp. (NASDAQ: NVDA) chips. The chips, which are banned in China, were reportedly shipped to Malaysia via servers from Dell Technologies Inc.

Malaysian says its authorities are discussing the issue with the data center companies and checking if the chips have gone to the right parties.

Servers that may contain AI-powering Nvidia chips shipped from the United States to Singapore ended up in Malaysia, but their actual final destination remains a mystery, the city-state's interior mini

Singapore is investigating a fraud case involving Dell (NYSE:DELL) and Super Micro Computer (NASDAQ:SMCI) servers supplied to Singapore-based companies and then shipped to Malaysia, which may have contained Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA) chips that the U.