What was Hungarian company's role in manufacturing pagers that exploded in Lebanon?

Source: Euronews with AP

What was Hungarian company's role in manufacturing pagers that exploded in Lebanon?

By Euronews with AP
Published on 18/09/2024 - 8:45 GMT+2•Updated 17:35

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After a Taiwanese brand alleged that thousands of pagers that exploded across Lebanon on Tuesday, killing at least 12 and wounding thousands more, were manufactured in Hungary, the government in Budapest quickly refuted these claims.

Experts believe that explosive material was put into the pagers prior to their delivery in a sophisticated supply chain infiltration operation, but it is not clear where or by whom they were manufactured and shipped to Lebanon and Syria.

The Taiwanese company whose brand the devices carried, Gold Apollo, said on Wednesday that it merely authorised the use of its name on the AR-924 pagers and that the devices were made by Budapest-based firm BAC Consulting KFT.

But in a post on X, government spokesperson Zoltan Kovacs wrote that the Budapest's position is that "the company in question is a trading intermediary, with no manufacturing or operational site in Hungary. It has one manager registered at its declared address, and the referenced devices have never been in Hungary."

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