By TOI Tech Desk
Publication Date: 2025-11-22 20:54:00
Two American citizens and two nationals of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) — all residing in the United States — have been charged with a conspiracy to illegally export cutting-edge Nvidia Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) to the PRC. John Eisenberg, assistant attorney general for the Justice Department’s National Security Division, said in a press release. America has banned Nvidia from selling its high-end H200 GPUs to China. The US government release further said that the government will also seek forfeiture of 50 Nvidia H200 GPUs that were intended to be exported unlawfully.Those arrested include Hon Ning Ho, aka “Mathew Ho,” an American citizen born in Hong Kong, 34, residing in Tampa, Florida; Brian Curtis Raymond, American citizen, 46, Huntsville, Alabama; Cham Li, aka “Tony Li,” PRC national, 38, San Leandro, California, and Jing Chen, aka “Harry Chen,” PRC national on F-1 nonimmigrant student visa, 45, Tampa, Florida. On November 19, 2025, Ho and Chen were arrested and appeared in court in the Middle District of Florida, while Raymond was arrested and appeared in the Northern District of Alabama.
Raymond was briefly the chief technology officer (CTO) of the Virginia-based Corvex, which describes itself as an AI cloud computing company and is planning to go public. Corvex listed Raymond as its CTO and part of its leadership team in a press release on November 10.Corvex told CNBC yesterday…
