Tracking the exploding pagers used in apparent Israeli attack on Hezbollah

Tracking the exploding pagers used in apparent Israeli attack on Hezbollah toggle caption Emily Feng/NPR TAIPEI, Taiwan — Entrepreneur Hsu Ching-kuang was once lauded in Taiwan for resuscitating the archaic electronic pager, in part by pivoting into sales to foreign governments. But on Wednesday, he faced an onslaught of police officers and journalists outside his office in northern Taiwan, after Gold Apollo was linked to hundreds of pagers belonging to members of the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah that simultaneously exploded Tuesday across Lebanon and in parts of Syria, which Lebanon's health minister says killed 12 people and injured nearly 3,000. “Strange” payments About a year after BAC signed a contract with Gold Apollo, Hsu says they came back to him with an unusual request: they wanted to design their own products but put his company’s trademark on them. Why not just use my products?” Hsu also noticed their payment transfers were “strange.” While BAC is located in the capital of Hungary, Hsu said the company paid Gold Apollo from a Middle Eastern bank account that was blocked at least once by their bank in Taiwan. Taiwan’s ministry of economic affairs says it has no record of any Taiwan companies exporting pagers directly to Lebanon between 2022 and 2024 and deemed Gold Apollo’s pagers “modified after being exported,” according to a statement.