U.S. gave Singapore scant help with Alice Huang probe, source says

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Singapore held Alice Huang's passport for 8 months and asked the U.S. to help investigate her firm's suspected Nvidia chip sales, but received little help, sources say.

Singaporean authorities seized the passport of then-Megaspeed chief executive Alice Huang in June 2025 and held it for eight months, preventing her departure while trying to engage the U.S. government to support their investigation into advanced Nvidia chips possibly being shipped to China.

One source with knowledge of the matter told CBS News on Friday the Singaporean government received no meaningful help from Washington during the time she was in the Asian city-state. This source said officials in Washington were "not forthcoming" in response to Singapore's requests for help, and no substantive assistance has been provided to date.

Singapore's government confirmed in a statement this week that it reached out to both the U.S. Department of Justice and the FBI for assistance with its investigation.

Alice Huang is the suspected Chinese spy at the center of the extramarital affair scandal that toppled Nvidia founder Jensen Huang from the helm of the global tech giant he built over three decades.

Since February 2025, Singaporean authorities have been investigating whether Alice Huang and Megaspeed worked with California-based Supermicro to ship the Silicon Valley firm's computer servers — equipped with advanced Nvidia chips — to China, the source told CBS News.

Alice Huang flew into Singapore in June 2025 for a voluntary interview with Singapore-based investigators from the U.S. Bureau of Industry and Security, according to the source.

The agency sits within the U.S. Department of Commerce and regulates the export of sensitive products on national security and economic grounds. The American authorities requested the interview, according to a Thursday statement by Singapore's Home Affairs Ministry, as part of a post-shipment verification check, a process used to determine whether imported products have reached their declared recipient.

Singaporean police also interviewed Huang on the same day as the U.S. officials, and made the decision to impound her passport.

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