A Bloomberg investigation on Friday shed some additional light on the indictment of Supermicro executives and employees tied to a $2.5 billion smuggling of restricted hardware to China. As it appears, the group allegedly used a Thailand-based government-related entity to route restricted Nvidia AI GPUs to none other than Alibaba itself, whose AI ambitions can easily absorb hardware worth far more than a couple of billion dollars.

Supermicro's alleged violations of U.S. export controls that ended up as shipments of restricted Nvidia AI accelerators to China and Russia have caught a lot of attention in recent years, as billions of dollars worth of hardware were shipped to American foes. The new Bloomberg report claims that Thailand-based Obon Corp. is the previously unnamed Southeast Asian intermediary referenced in the indictment, which claims that some of the hardware ultimately reached Alibaba.