As the article states, Singapore accounted for 20% (!) of Nvidias total revenue. You think management wasn't aware that something was going on? A country with about 2% of the GDP of the US and non of the large AI companies? Management either was involved or willfully looked the other way the alternative is that they are so grossly incompetent and non-involved in the company that it's hard to believe.

Willful ignorance, at best.

Yeah…why would they need to bother with secretly arranging for their gpus to go to China given that there is excess demand in the free world.

This will continue until you put management people in prison. "Sales gonna sales" can't be the excuse forever.

Are the laws written such that companies as large as Nvidia have zero accountability over the destination of their products that may violate laws?

They don't need to track down every unit, but 20% of revenue ending up at a Singapore address might warrant some understanding of the end destination?