Taiwanese company denies making the pagers exploded in Lebanon.
According to the Taipei Times, Hsu Ching Kuang, the founder and president of Gold Apollo Company, claimed in an interview with reporters that this company is not the manufacturer of the exploded pagers in Lebanon and that a European company made them using the brand rights of this company.
He claimed: The product was not ours, only our brand was on it.
At the same time, Gold Apollo Company published a statement and claimed that “AR-924” model pagers are manufactured and sold by “BAC” Company. We only license the trademark and have no involvement in the design or manufacture of this product.
With the publication of the “New York Times” report about the manipulation of the exploded pagers in Lebanon and the fact that the manufacturing company is Taiwanese, a few hours ago, the Ministry of Economy of Taiwan, claimed that there is no record of the direct export of these pagers from Taiwan to Lebanon, announced that the manufacturer of these pagers was probably It has been tampered with after export.
The New York Times newspaper revealed new aspects of the series of explosions of pager devices in Lebanon in a report yesterday evening.
According to the New York Times, knowledgeable American officials, who did not want to be named, announced in this regard: Lebanon’s Hezbollah had ordered a pager from Taiwan’s Gold Apollo Company, and Israel managed to manipulate the pagers before they entered Lebanon. Embed a little explosive inside them.
This publication claimed the widespread distribution of these pagers among Hezbollah members throughout Lebanon and even some people related to this movement in Iran and Syria.
The Russian publication Rashatodi also announced in a report that the members of the Mossad spy agency contaminated thousands of pagers with explosives and then distributed them in Lebanon. It seems that sending a specific message caused the battery of these pagers to heat up and then explode the plastic explosives inside these devices.
The claims made by these media are being made while Lebanon’s Hezbollah has announced the beginning of its investigation into these explosions and has not yet taken an official position in this regard.