TYPE: Taiwanese investigators questioned two extra staff of a know-how firm on Monday (September 23) as a part of a probe into the supply of explosive communications gadgets to the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah.
There are nonetheless many questions on the place the gadgets got here from and the way they have been equipped to the militant group after a whole bunch of pagers and two-way radios exploded throughout Lebanon final week, killing at the least 39 individuals and wounding round 3,000.
The New York Times reported that Israel positioned explosive materials in a cargo of pagers from Taiwan’s Gold Apollo, citing U.S. officers and different unnamed officers.
Taiwanese investigators initially searched 4 places and questioned two individuals, together with Gold Apollo supervisor Hsu Ching-kuang, who denied producing the gadgets.
On Monday, prosecutors stated they’d questioned two extra firm staff.
“Today, he additionally ordered the nationwide safety division … to query former or present (Gold Apollo) staff as witnesses,” stated the prosecutor’s workplace in Taipei’s Shilin District, the place the corporate is headquartered.
“The two have contributed to clarifying the case and your entire affair is below intense investigation,” the prosecutor’s workplace stated in an announcement.
Investigators haven’t but named any of the witnesses, though Hsu was seen commuting between the workplace and headquarters with investigators on Thursday.
Gold Apollo initially pointed the finger at its Hungarian accomplice BAC Consulting, to whom the Taiwanese firm had granted the usage of its trademark.
But a Hungarian authorities spokeswoman stated BAC Consulting was “a business middleman, with no manufacturing or operational website in Hungary.”
Taiwanese media had recognized Wu Yu-jen, a consultant of Gold Systems, allegedly linked to BAC Consulting, as one other individual questioned final week.
The island’s economic system minister had stated they have been “sure” that the explosive pagers in Lebanon “weren’t produced in Taiwan.”
