Supermicro CEO insists ‘no one’ beyond indicted employees were involved in alleged $2.5 billion smuggling scheme

Super Micro Computer CEO Charles Liang spoke out during the company’s fiscal third quarter earnings call to deliver a message. “No one” at the company besides three indicted employees—including cofounder Yih-Shyan “Wally” Liaw—were involved in what prosecutors have called an elaborate scheme to smuggle servers to China in violation of U.S. export controls, said Liang. The stock rose 18% in after-hours trading.

The server manufacturer’s third quarter earning call on Tuesday was the first...