TAIPEI: Taiwan investigators on Monday (Sep 23) questioned two extra staff of a tech agency as a part of a probe into the supply of exploding communications devices to Lebanese militant group Hezbollah.
Questions abound over the place the units got here from and the way they have been equipped to the militant group after lots of of pagers and two-way radios detonated throughout Lebanon final week, killing no less than 39 folks and wounding practically 3,000.
The New York Instances reported that Israel had inserted explosive materials right into a cargo of pagers from Taiwan’s Gold Apollo, citing United States and different nameless officers.
Taiwanese investigators initially searched 4 places and questioned two folks together with Gold Apollo’s head Hsu Ching-kuang, who has denied producing the units.
On Monday, the prosecutors’ workplace stated they’d questioned two extra firm staff.
“At this time, it additionally directed the Nationwide Safety division … to interview former or present staff of (Gold Apollo) as witnesses,” stated the prosecutors’ workplace in Taipei’s Shilin district the place the corporate relies.
“The 2 helped make clear the case, and the entire case is underneath intensive investigation,” the prosecutors’ workplace stated in a press release.
Investigators have thus far not named any of the witnesses, although Hsu was seen on Thursday shuttling between the workplace and his headquarters with investigators.
Gold Apollo had initially pointed the finger at its Hungary-based accomplice BAC Consulting, which the Taiwanese firm had allowed to make use of its trademark.
However a Hungarian authorities spokesman stated BAC Consulting was “a buying and selling middleman, with no manufacturing or operational web site in Hungary”.
Taiwanese media had recognized Wu Yu-jen, a consultant of Gold Techniques – reportedly linked to BAC Consulting – as one other particular person introduced in for questioning final week.
The island’s financial minister had stated they have been “sure” that the exploding pagers in Lebanon have been “not produced in Taiwan”.
