Gold Apollo: Taiwan pager maker stunned by link to Lebanon attacks

The search for the originator of the pagers that exploded in Lebanon has taken an unexpected turn, heading in the direction of a Chinese business that few had heard of until this day.

In the blasts that targeted Hezbollah people on Tuesday, which sparked a gepolitical upheaval in the Middle East, at least 12 people were killed and almost 3, 000 were hurt.

Caught in the issue, Chinese firm Gold Apollo’s leader Hsu Ching-Kuang bluntly denied his organization had anything to do with the problems.

Instead, Mr. Hsu has claimed that he gave his trade level to a Hungarian business called BAC Consulting so they could use the name Gold Apollo on their own websites. BBC attempts to contact BAC have so far been fruitless.

” You look at the pictures from Lebanon”, Mr Hsu told investigators outside his firm’s practices on Wednesday. ” They do n’t have any mark saying Made in Taiwan on them, we did not make those pagers”!

The headquarters of Gold Apollo are in a huge new business area in a non-descript district of Taiwan’s money, Taipei.

Except for the two police officers stationed at the gate, who are prepared to ward off the huge bunch of reporters and Television crews squatting around, they appear exactly like any of the thousands of small buying companies and manufacturers that make up the region’s economy.

A clip of little squarish plastic devices with tiny gray LCD screens hangs on the walls of Gold Apollo’s workplace. They are all pagers.

Until this day the bank’s site had a website devoted to each, extolling its values and realities. However, the site went online as soon as information emerged that Gold Apollo was the reported owner of the weapons used in the assaults in Lebanon.

Mr. Hsu claimed that BAC Consulting pagers were used in the problems in Lebanon. He claimed that BAC Consulting and his business had entered into a three-year partnership three years ago.

The cash payments from BAC had been “very strange”, he added. There had been difficulties with the repayments, which had come through the Middle East, he told investigators, but he did not go into details.

First, he said, BAC wanted to buy pagers from Gold Apollo to offer in Europe. However, they came up with a new idea after about a year to create their personal pagers and gave Gold Apollo’s title.

We merely grant the brand’s brand a license, and Gold Apollo never participated in the product’s design or production, according to a statement.

However, the fact that there is now a team from the Taipei investigation bureau working in his office, which also contains a lot of carboard boxes, suggests that the Japanese authorities are not completely at ease.

Nevertheless, Mr Hsu’s statement that his company did n’t make the devices is plausible.

Taiwan’s manufacturing industry is a sizable maze of small businesses, many of which do not really produce the goods they sell. They may have research and design agencies, ownership of the brand name, and the academic house. However, the majority of the genuine production is done overseas in factories in China or Southeast Asia.

Pagers are not exactly cutting-edge systems; there are many businesses all over the world that are capable of producing them.

They are tiny television receivers that can read and display emails, with LED screens. Electric pagers were regarded as the most recent technology in the 1980s and 1990s and were used by tens of millions of people. Businesses used pagers to send brief words messages to subject people before mobile phones.

However, with the development of the wise phone, pagers have come to the brink of extinction. They are now a market system that hospitals can use to communicate with doctors and nurses even when other conversation lines are hampered.

Beginning in the late 2000s, Gold Apollo began producing additional short-range radios, primarily for restaurants. A round disc that is currently the most popular item the company sells to customers in restaurants and food courts is the company’s most popular product right now. It vibrates and lights off when the order is available.

As a trustworthy voicemail company, it’s possible that Gold Apollo’s model was instrumental in selling the pagers that ended up with Hezbollah.

However, in this remarkable tale, there are still more questions than answers.

Who is or was responsible for BAC Consulting that we are so little aware of?

If Gold Apollo did not produce the pagers used in the invasion in Lebanon, therefore who and where did they do?