SINGAPORE, Feb. 28 -- Three men have reportedly been charged yesterday with fraud in a case allegedly linked to US chipmaker Nvidia, amid increased scrutiny over the island's role in global semiconductor trade.

The Straits Times reported that the accused were Singaporeans Aaron Woon Guo Jie, 41, and Alan Wei Zhaolun, 49, along with Chinese national Li Ming, 51.

Court documents state that Li allegedly committed fraud in 2023 by misrepresenting that a company named Luxuriate Your Life was the end user of certain servers, referred to as "the items."

Wei and Woon are accused of collaborating in 2024 to deceive a supplier by falsely claiming that the items would not be transferred to any party besides the authorised end user.

The charges c...