By Jasper Ward

WASHINGTON, Dec 8 (Reuters) – Two Chinese men are in custody for allegedly smuggling Nvidia H100 and H200 chips to China, the U.S. Justice Department said on Monday, as President Donald Trump gave the green light for Nvidia to export its H200 ‍chips to Beijing.

Prosecutors allege that Fanyue Gong, 43, a Chinese citizen living in New York, and Benlin Yuan, 58, a Canadian citizen from China, independently conspired with employees of a Hong Kong-based logistics company and a China-based AI technology company to circumvent U.S. export controls, according to the Justice Department.

In court documents, prosecutors said that Gong and his co-conspirators obtained the Nvidia chips through straw purchasers and intermediaries, and falsely claimed that the ‌goods were for U.S. custom

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