Investigators say Taiwan individuals or firms not involved in Lebanon device blasts

By Agencies 11 November 2024, 11:41 am

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An undated file catalog image of an Apollo pager, similar to the ones that exploded on September 17, 2024, in various cities of Lebanon and Syria, in an unprecedented attack on Hezbollah personnel. (Balkis Press / ABACAPRESS.COM / Reuters)

Taiwan investigators say there was no evidence that Taiwanese individuals or firms were involved in a deadly September attack targeting Hezbollah communications devices that exploded in Lebanon.

“Our investigation has verified that no nationals or domestic companies were involved in Lebanon’s high-profile pager detonation incidents,” Taiwan prosecutors say in a statement.

The pagers that exploded, in an attack blamed on Israel, appeared to have been made by Taiwan’s Gold Apollo.

Gold Apollo denied producing the devices and instead pointed the finger at its Budapest-based partner BAC Consulting KFT.