U.S. Feds Shatter $160M Nvidia Smuggling Network—China’s Illegal Datacenters Busted
When federal agents finally pieced together the elaborate smuggling conspiracy in December 2025, they discovered something almost absurdly simple at its core: a fictional company name that never appeared in any legitimate business registry anywhere on Earth. "SANDKYAN" became the fake identity under which workers—operating under the direct supervision of Brooklyn-based tech entrepreneur Fanyue "Tom" Gong—physically peeled authentic Nvidia labels from thousands of advanced H100 and H200 graphics processing units and manually applied false branding to hide their origin.
The audacity of the scheme wasn't in technological sophistication; it was in social engineering, document falsification, and exploiting systemic vulnerabilities in how U.S. customs and export-control inspectors verify goods crossing international borders.
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