As Hungarian Conservative has also reported, the pagers involved in a bombing in Lebanon injuring around 2,323 people came from a Hungarian company, BAC Consulting. It has been revealed that the pagers have never been in Hungary, and the aforementioned company’s involvement is that of an intermediary.
According to recent Hungarian press reports, it was a Sofia-based company that purchased the pagers from Taiwan, which were ultimately sold to Hezbollah. The Hungarian company involved in the case did not actually play any active role, and the devices were never in Hungary, according to sources with insight into the matter, as Hungarian news website Telex has learned. This information has since been officially confirmed by the Hungarian government. ‘Hungarian authorities have confirmed that the company in question is a trading intermediary with no manufacturing facilities or sites in Hungary. It has one executive at its registered address, and the devices in question were never in Hungary,’ State Secretary for International Communication Zoltán Kovács stated on Wednesday afternoon.
‘This matter poses no national security risk to Hungary’
The state secretary also added that the Hungarian national security services are cooperating with all their international counterparts affected by the issues, and declared that ‘this matter poses no national security risk to Hungary.’
NBC contacted Cristiana Bársony-Arcidiacono, the CEO of BAC Consulting, a company officially based in Budapest, who confirmed that her company had collaborated with a Taiwanese company called Gold Apollo, whose branding was found on the pagers that exploded in Lebanon. When asked about the pagers and the explosions, Cristiana Bársony-Arcidiacono said: ‘I don’t manufacture the pagers. I’m just an intermediary. I think this has been misunderstood.’
‘It was a Sofia-based company that purchased the pagers from Taiwan’
Sources have indicted that the pagers were not even shipped by BAC Consulting from Taiwan, but by the Bulgarian company. In fact, it was the Bulgarian company that handled the logistics, and this same Sofia-based company sold the devices to Hezbollah.
The Bulgarian company in question has a Norwegian owner. Similarly to the Hungarian firm, the Bulgarian company is registered with a virtual office provider, one that hosts a total of 196 companies. The Bulgarian company was founded in April 2022, and is apparently involved in project management only, and most likely not engaged in any manufacturing.
