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Hungary’s government said Saturday that the country’s intelligence services had questioned the chief executive of Budapest-based BAC Consulting, which is linked to the pagers used by members of the Lebanese Hezbollah group that exploded last week.
Taiwanese pager manufacturer Gold Apollo said on Wednesday that the model of the devices used in the Lebanon explosions was manufactured by BAC Consulting, adding that it had only granted the company its trademark and was not involved in the production of the devices.
BAC Consulting’s owner and CEO, Cristiana Barsoni Archidiacono, 49, told NBC News last week that she did not manufacture the pagers, adding that she was “just the middleman.”
The Hungarian government’s international press office said in a statement that Hungarian intelligence services have been investigating since Wednesday and have questioned Parsoni Archidiaconu several times.
The international press office issued its statement quoting the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, a Hungarian intelligence agency.
The Office for the Protection of the Constitution confirmed an earlier government statement that pagers used in the mass bombings had never existed in Hungary.
Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s government has previously said that BAC Consulting is “a commercial brokerage company, with no manufacturing or operational location in Hungary.”
