The scheme was given up shortly after 56 units were declared to Japan and flagged by customers, who demanded a "strategic high-tech commodities export permit." The defendants in the case filed for one, including fake mockups of Supermicro's website created by splicing together real parts of the site. Once word of the scheme came to light, the servers were not allowed to leave the country.
According to prosecutors, investigations have also uncovered a second scheme cooked up by the GM of Albatron, a manager from Supermicro, and the head of a small electronics firm, which billed Albatron $39 million Taiwanese dollars for installation work that was never carried out, splitting the money with the other perps. The head of the latter firm reportedly turned himself in, confessing alongside Albatron's GM and naming other participants in the scheme in exchange for leniency. Despite this, they reportedly still face up to five years on counts of export and six years for looting.
As per above, Supermicro has announced the findings of its own investigation in a US smuggling scheme, claiming that senior management had no knowledge of the matter and no evidence that controlled products were sold to banned entities.
As the report notes, this latest Taiwan sales channel was uncovered by Taiwanese prosecutors, rather than Supermicro's audit.
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