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U.S. gave Singapore scant help with Alice Huang probe, source says

According to reporting by CBS MoneyWatch, Singapore held Alice Huang's passport for 8 months and asked the U.S. to help investigate her firm's suspected Nvidia chip sales, but received little help, sources say.

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According to reporting by CBS MoneyWatch, Singapore held Alice Huang's passport for 8 months and asked the U.S. to help investigate her firm's suspected Nvidia chip sales, but received little help, sources say.

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Singaporean authorities seized the passport of then-Megaspeed chief executive Alice Huang in June 2025 and held it for eight months, preventing her departure while trying to engage the U.S. government to support their investigation into advanced Nvidia chips possibly being shipped to China .

One source with knowledge of the matter told CBS News on Friday the Singaporean government received no meaningful help from Washington during the time she was in the Asian city-state. This source said officials in Washington were "not forthcoming" in response to Singapore's requests for help, and no substantive assistance has been provided to date.

Singapore's government confirmed in a statement this week that it reached out to both the U.S. Department of Justice and the FBI for assistance with its investigation.

Alice Huang is the suspected Chinese spy at the center of the extramarital affair scandal that toppled Nvidia founder Jensen Huang from the helm of the global tech giant he built over three decades.

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    Singapore held Alice Huang's passport for 8 months and asked the U.S. to help investigate her firm's suspected Nvidia chip sales, but received little help, sources say.

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