An Atlanta resident and two other men have been charged with export control violations and conspiring to commit smuggling of artificial intelligence technology to China.

The United States Attorney’s Office of Northern Georgia announced Wednesday that Tommy Shad English of Atlanta, Stanley Yi Zheng of Hong Kong and Matthew Kelly of Hopewell Junction, New York, allegedly sought millions of dollars’ worth of export-controlled computer chips from a California-based computer hardware company (referred to in the complaint as “Company-1”) for illegal shipment to China through Thailand.

China is under an embargo in the United States, with American companies restricted from selling to businesses or end users headquartered there.

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