From Taiwan’s Gold Apollo: Detonated Hezbollah pagers were manufactured by Hungarian partner
Hsu Ching-kuang (L), head of Taiwanese company Gold Apollo, speaks to the media outside the company's office in New Taipei City on September 18, 2024. (Yan ZHAO / AFP)
Taiwanese company Gold Apollo says that the pager model allegedly used by Hezbollah members that simultaneously exploded and killed at least nine people was made by its Hungarian partner.
Pieces of an exploded pager in a picture circulating on social media, September 17, 2024 (via telegram)
Gold Apollo has a “long-term partnership” with Budapest-based BAC Consulting KFT to use its trademark, and the model mentioned in media reports “is produced and sold by BAC,” the company says in a statement, after the New York Times reported that Gold Apollo pagers were involved in the blasts.
