Lebanon Pager Explosions: Hungarian intelligence agency interrogated CEO of BAC Consulting
BUDAPEST – Hungarian intelligence services have interrogated the CEO of BAC Consulting, a Budapest-based company linked to Lebanon’s deadly explosions of pagers last Tuesday, the Hungarian government said on Saturday.
Taiwanese pager firm Gold Apollo acquitted itself from accusations on Wednesday, saying that the model of pagers used in detonations were produced by BAC Consulting, adding it had only licensed out its brand to the Hungarian company.
Cristiana Barsony-Arcidiacono, 49, the Italian-Hungarian CEO and owner of BAC Consulting, told NBC News earlier this week that she was “just the intermediate” and did not take part in their production.
Investigations by the Hungarian intelligence agencies have been ongoing since Wednesday, during which they interviewed Barsony-Arcidiacono several times, the Hungarian government’s international press office said in a statement.
The Constitution Protection Office (AH) reiterated in an earlier statement from the government that the aforementioned pager devices were never in Hungary.
Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s government also said earlier that BAC Consulting was “a trading-intermediary company, which has no manufacturing or other site of operation in Hungary.”
In attacks blamed on the Zionist occupation, devices including pagers and walkie-talkies exploded and resulted in significant casualties across Lebanon. The toll of martyrs has by far risen to 39, and more than 3,000 were injured.
