Singapore barred Alice Huang from re-entering the country in February, after police concluded that she had given them information she knew to be inaccurate, the Ministry of Home Affairs said on 12 November. In a statement on its investigations into the cloud company Megaspeed, the ministry described her as Megaspeed’s then chief executive, chairperson and one of its key controllers.
Police found insufficient evidence that she had committed offences linked to Megaspeed’s possible false declarations, but gave her a stern warning. The ministry added that she “was not based in Singapore, and was not investigated for espionage”.
Alice Huang has been named in reports as the woman with whom Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang had a relationship, and US intelligence reportedly suspects her of gathering information for China. No charges have been reported against her, and Beijing has rejected the espionage claims as smears. Singapore’s statement does not mention Nvidia or Jensen Huang, whose board is reportedly preparing to remove him. It is Singapore’s most detailed public account of the case so far.
Singapore police say Alice Huang tried to downplay her role at Megaspeed
The ministry’s timeline starts in February 2025, when the Singapore Police Force and Singapore Customs opened an investigation into several companies and key officers, including Megaspeed. The case concerns potential false declarations in the purchase of servers, along with related offences. Home Affairs Minister K Shanmugam said in March 2025 that the investigation was not based on any request from another country. Megaspeed itself began operating in its current form in March 2023, when Alice Huang was listed as its managing director.
US officials visited Megaspeed a few months later, in the middle of 2025. On 24 June 2025, the US Bureau of Industry and Security carried out a voluntary post-shipment verification check at the company, with Alice Huang present. The ministry said that was Singapore’s first sign of US interest in Megaspeed and in her. Singapore police interviewed her on the same day, and impounded her passport to make sure she attended further questioning. Police returned the passport on 26 February 2026, and she left Singapore that day.
By then, police had concluded that she had provided information she knew to be inaccurate, in order to downplay her role in Megaspeed. She was given a stern warning and barred from re-entering the country, and the ministry said other cases had been dealt with in a similar way in the past. The investigation into Megaspeed and six other individuals is still continuing. None of those six people has been in Singapore since it began in February 2025, according to the ministry.
Singapore says Washington has shared little about Megaspeed
The statement also gives a rare public account of how cooperation with the US has gone. Singapore raised the matter with US authorities in July 2025, and since September 2025 police have repeated their requests to the US Department of Justice and the FBI on several occasions. “Singapore has to date received limited information or assistance in respect of the company,” the ministry said. Police also sought information from Supermicro, a US server supplier relevant to the investigation, which the ministry said provided limited cooperation.
That contrasts with the pressure on Megaspeed in Washington. Senator Tom Cotton urged the Commerce Department to investigate the company in an October 2025 letter, and US lawmakers have put Megaspeed’s Nvidia hardware imports at more than $4.6 billion. Megaspeed was set up as an offshore unit of the Chinese games and cloud company 7Road, which is part of why it sits at the centre of the Huang scandal.
Singapore also drew a clear line on export rules. The country “does not enforce unilateral export controls imposed by other countries”, the ministry said, although it expects companies to take such rules into account in their international business. Its own case is about possible false declarations under Singapore law, not US export controls. “We will not allow companies or individuals to misuse Singapore’s business environment to engage in fraud or dishonest practices,” the ministry added.
The statement lands on the same day Megaspeed promised a GPU census
Megaspeed issued its own statement on 12 November, saying it had hired a US law firm to count its GPUs and check its export compliance. That statement is signed by Tan Yong Pong as chairman and chief executive, the same roles the ministry says Alice Huang held when police began their investigation. Megaspeed’s statement does not mention her, the Singapore investigation or the re-entry ban. Nvidia, for its part, said in 2025 that its own checks had found Megaspeed “legally qualified”, with “no signs of diversion”.
The chip trail has also widened beyond Singapore. The Information has reported that Alice Huang was linked to Shanghai Century Litong, a Chinese Nvidia cloud partner that it says helped move at least $7.5 billion of Nvidia chips into China since 2023. The Wall Street Journal has also reported that her husband, a businessman who had known Jensen Huang for about a decade, introduced the two of them.
For Nvidia’s board, the key question is whether the relationship created a security or governance problem. After the first reports, the board said it had “no reason to believe” that national security or Nvidia’s secrets had been compromised, and it has since hired former federal prosecutor Joon Kim to investigate. The board has not announced a decision on Huang, and Nvidia reports its third-quarter results on 17 November.
