Lim, 51, was charged on Thursday with one count of being part of a criminal conspiracy to commit fraud by false representation in 2024.

She is accused of conspiring with former chief executive Alan Wei Zhaolun, 50, and head of sales Aaron Woon Guo Jie, 41, to mislead Dell about the end user of servers purchased by the company, according to Channel News Asia.

The trio allegedly claimed the servers would be supplied to Aperia International, when it was not the actual end user, and the equipment was later exported to Malaysia.

The servers involved may have contained Nvidia chips, which are critical for artificial intelligence and high-performance computing, The Straits Times reported.

An Nvidia H20 chip. Photo by Reuters

Wei and Woon were first charged in February 2025 and were among nine people arrested during joint raids by the Singapore Police Force and Singapore Customs.

The cases are part of a broader investigation into the illegal movement of advanced Nvidia chips through intermediaries in Singapore to China, bypassing U.S. export controls.

The crackdown followed a U.S. probe into possible circumvention of export controls on advanced Nvidia chips after Chinese AI firm DeepSeek launched a free AI tool in January 2025 that wiped around US$1 trillion off the value of U.S. tech stocks.

Lim and her co-accused are scheduled for pre-trial conferences on May 22. She is currently out on bail of S$350,000 (US$272,300).