Taiwanese firms didn't make Hezbollah's exploding pagers, say prosecutors
FirstpostProsecutors have concluded that Taiwanese firms did not make Lebanon-based Hezbollah’s pagers that exploded across the nation in Israeli attack in September Pagers on display at a meeting room at the Gold Apollo company building in New Taipei City, Taiwan, on September 18, 2024. Reuters Taiwan on Monday said it had closed a probe into pagers that exploded in Lebanon in September and caused a deadly blow to Iran-backed Hezbollah, saying no Taiwanese citizens or companies were involved. Security sources have previously said the pagers carried the name of Taiwan-based Gold Apollo, a company which has asserted that it did not make them. Taipei prosecutors, who were investigating the case, said in a statement the AR-924 pager model that exploded in Lebanon was manufactured, traded, and shipped by a firm called Frontier Group Entity, and made outside of Taiwan.