A British-educated entrepreneur has denied manufacturing the pagers that wounded hundreds of Hezbollah fighters on Tuesday afternoon in a simultaneous explosion.
The devices, used by the Lebanese terror group to communicate securely, wounded more than 3,000 people and killed at least 12 in an audacious Israeli attack.
The Taiwanese firm whose branding was on the devices said on Wednesday that they were manufactured in Hungary.
Gold Apollo said “the design and manufacturing of the products are solely the responsibility” of Budapest-based BAC Consulting KFT, which was authorised to use its brand as part of a three-year-old licensing agreement.
“We may not be a large company but we are a responsible one,” said chairman Hsu Ching-kuang. “This is very embarrassing.”
However, Cristiana Bársony-Arcidiacono, the CEO of BAC Consulting, said “I do not make the pagers. I am just the intermediary. I think you got it wrong” when reached on the phone by NBC News.