US Arrests Greg Lui Over Alleged $300 Million Server Shipments to China

What changed

US authorities arrested Greg Lui on 2 October 2026 over alleged unlawful shipments of computer servers to China valued at US$300 million. The Justice Department says Lui used his company, Earthmade Computer, to buy and send the equipment during 2023 and 2024 without licences required by the US Department of Commerce.

Why it matters

The case puts export licensing at the centre of a very large technology-smuggling allegation. Those licences are the legal checkpoint for sending controlled goods abroad; prosecutors say Earthmade Computer bypassed that checkpoint across shipments worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

The key question now is what happens in court. The available account does not say whether all the alleged shipments reached China, what the servers were intended for, or how the case will end.