The Hungarian government confirmed on Wednesday that the company BAC Consulting, accused of manufacturing the Hezbollah Pager which exploded on Tuesday, only acts as a commercial intermediary and It does not have any production centres in Hungary.
“The authorities have confirmed that the company in question is a commercial intermediary, with no production or operations centre in Hungary,” Zoltán Kovács, State Secretary for Communication, said on the social network. “they never went” to the country.
Kovács also stressed that the Central European country’s national security services are cooperating with all international agencies and organizations in the investigations related to what happened. Local press reported on Wednesday that, according to the Taiwanese company Gold Apollo, it was the Hungarian BAC Consulting that manufactured the devices that exploded on Tuesday in Lebanon and Syria.
“Under the agreement, we allow BAC to use our brand for the sale of products in specific regions, but the design and manufacturing of the products is handled entirely by BAC,” Gold Apollo said in a statement.
The director of the Hungarian sole proprietorship, Cristiana Bársony-Arcidiacono, denied having manufactured the pager. In the meantime, Brussels has announced that it will investigate the case, a European Union (EU) spokesperson explained, according to the independent portal Hvg. “For Hungary, this case does not pose any risk to national security,” Kovács also said.
The explosions of pagers associated with the Hezbollah militia have caused at least 12 dead and more than 3,100 injured between the waves of yesterday and this Wednesday, according to official estimates. The Lebanese Ministry of Public Health reported this afternoon that in a new wave of explosions Wireless devices have killed at least nine people and injured more than 300.
