FILE PHOTO: A TV crew operates in front of the office building where BAC Consulting KFT is said to be registered, in Budapest, Hungary, September 18, 2024. Taiwan's Gold Apollo said in a statement that BAC has a license to use its brand and made the model of pagers used in the detonations in Lebanon. REUTERS/Marton Monus/File Photo
Following publication of this story, Reuters again reached out to her but received no reply. The Hungarian government said on Wednesday that BAC Consulting was a “trading-intermediary company” which had no manufacturing site in the country and that the pagers had never been to Hungary. At her Budapest home, a steel outer gate encloses a small vestibule where life drawings of nudes sketched in red and orange pastels can be seen taped up on the wall. An inner door leading into her apartment was ajar when Reuters first visited the building on Wednesday, and closed when the reporter returned on Thursday. No one answered the bell.
In the early 2000s she earned her PhD in physics at University College London, where her dissertation on positrons - a subatomic particle with the mass of an electron and a positive charge - remains available on the UCL website. But she appears to have left without pursuing a scientific career.