Hsu Ching-kuang, founder and president of Gold Apollo, speaks to the media at their office in New Taipei City, Taiwan, September 18, 2024. REUTERS/Ann Wang
Taiwan's Gold Apollo said Wednesday the pagers used in the detonations in Lebanon had not been made by it but by a company called BAC, which has a licence to use its brand.Posted: Sep 18, 2024 7:02 AM EDT | Last Updated: 21 minutes agoWarning: Video contains graphic images | Hezbollah is blaming Israel and vowing revenge after several people were killed and thousands more injured when pagers used by Hezbollah members exploded simultaneously across Lebanon.
"The product was not ours. It was only that it had our brand on it," Gold Apollo founder and president Hsu Ching-kuang told reporters at the company's offices in the northern Taiwanese city of New Taipei on Wednesday.The company said in a statement that the AR-924 model was produced and sold by BAC. "The remittance was very strange," he said, saying that payments had come through the Middle East. He did not elaborate further.Hezbollah fighters began using pagers in the belief they would be able to evade Israeli tracking of their locations, two sources familiar with the group's operations told Reuters this year.While Hsu was meeting with reporters, police officials arrived at the company. Officials from Taiwan's Economy Ministry also visited Gold Apollo.
A woman walks next to closed shops, following pager detonations across Lebanon on Tuesday, in Beirut on Wednesday.
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