Mysterious Hungarian company linked to pagers that exploded in Lebanon and Syria

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A Hungarian government spokesman said the pagers were never in Hungary and that BAC Consultants merely acted as an intermediary.

In a duplex in a quiet neighbourhood of the Hungarian capital is the headquarters of a company that is linked to the manufacture of the pagersin Lebanon and Syria as part of an apparent Israeli operation against the Hezbollah militant group.

Elod Novak, a member of the National Assembly of Hungary tries to get into the BAC Consulting company in Budapest.The Taiwanese company whose brand appears on the pagers, Gold Apollo, said on Wednesday that it had authorised the use of its name on the devices. “Authorities have confirmed that the company in question is a trading intermediary, with no manufacturing or operational site in Hungary. It has one manager registered at its declared address, and the referenced devices have never been in Hungary,” Zoltán Kovács posted Wednesday on X.Getty Images

BAC Consulting, which was registered as a limited liability company in May 2022, brought in $US725,000 in revenue in 2022 and $US593,000 in 2023, according to the company registry.

 

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