foreign media: global search for the source of "pager bombs" turns to bulgaria and norway
2024-09-21
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reference news reported on september 20according to reuters on september 19, bulgaria and norway became new focuses in the global investigation into who provided pagers to hezbollah in lebanon.
bulgarian authorities said on monday that their interior and national security ministries had launched an investigation into a company's possible links. they did not name the company they were investigating. bulgarian media reports said sofia-based nota global facilitated the sale of pagers to hezbollah.
bulgarian btv television station cited a security source as saying that 1.6 million euros related to the deal were transferred to hungary via bulgaria.
images of the destroyed pager analyzed by reuters show that its style is consistent with pagers made by taiwan's golden apollo co., ltd. golden apollo said on the 18th that the pager was made by bac consulting, headquartered in budapest, hungary. christiana barsauni-arcidiacono, owner and ceo of bac consulting, told reporters on the 18th that her company cooperated with golden apollo, but she had nothing to do with the manufacture of the pager. "i was just a middleman. i think you made a mistake."
the deal was brokered by nota global, a hungarian news website reportedly quoted sources as saying.
nota global’s bulgarian headquarters is registered in an apartment building in the capital, sofia, along with nearly 200 other companies, according to a bulgarian corporate registry. there is no sign of nota global in the building.
the report also said that nota global's founder, linsen jose, who lives in norway, declined to comment on the pager issue when reached by phone and hung up when asked about the bulgarian business.
dn media, where jose works, has been informed of the reports and alerted police and security services, chief executive armon djuvet told reuters. he said jose was leaving for the united states soon.
oslo police said it had launched a "preliminary investigation into the exposed information". norway's domestic intelligence agency, the police security service, said it was aware of the situation but declined to comment further.
a lebanese security source told reuters that hezbollah believed it ordered pagers from golden apollo and that they were produced in asia, not in europe. the source said, "it is possible that mossad created a european company." (compiled by long jun)
