SINGAPORE, June 27 (Reuters) - A Singapore court on

Friday adjourned a case against three men charged with fraud by

making false representations to unnamed server suppliers until

Aug 22.

At the hearing, the prosecution said the police would need

more time to review new documents and seek responses from

overseas parties in the investigations into the three men,

Singaporeans Aaron Woon Guo Jie, 41, and Alan Wei Zhaolun, 49,

as well as Chinese national Li Ming, 51.

They were charged earlier with making false representations

to the server suppliers about the end users of goods purchased

in 2023 and 2024.

Singapore Home Affairs Minister K Shanmugam said in March

that the authorities had ascertained that servers involved in

the fraud case may contain Nvidia ( NVDA ) chips, and that they had

investigated the case independently after an anonymous tip-off.

The United States banned the export of high-end chips from

Nvidia ( NVDA ) to China in 2022 amid concerns that they could be used

for military purposes.

The servers were supplied by Dell Technologies ( DELL ) and

Super Micro Computer ( SMCI ) to Singapore-based companies

before they were sent on to Malaysia, although it was not clear

if Malaysia was the final destination for the servers, he said.

The Singapore case is part of a broader police investigation

into 22 individuals and companies suspected of false

representation, amid concerns that nations like Singapore have

been used in organised AI chip smuggling to China.

In 2024, Singapore was Nvidia's ( NVDA ) second-biggest market after

the United States, accounting for 18% of its total revenue in

its latest fiscal year, a February filing by the chipmaker

shows.

Actual shipments to the Asian trading hub, however,

contributed less than 2% of total revenue, as customers use it

as a centre for invoicing sales to other countries.