SvennoJ on 20 September 2024
Ministers says components used in pager blasts were not made in Taiwan
Taiwan’s economy minister has said components used in thousands of pagers detonated in deadly blasts across Lebanon and Syria on Tuesday were not manufactured in Taiwan.
“The components are low-end IC [integrated circuits] and batteries,” Kuo Jyh-huei told reporters on Friday. “I can say with certainty they were not made in Taiwan.”
Taiwanese prosecutors questioned Gold Apollo’s founder and director Hsu Ching-kuang on Thursday as part of an investigation into the matter.
Hsu told reporters in the aftermath of the attacks, which have been blamed on Israel, that his company licensed its design and branding to Hungarian company BAC.
