UPDATE: Taiwan Pager Linked to Hungary
Israeli Femme Fatale?
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UPDATE: Now it turns out that BAC did have an “office”, to be exact a “mailbox”, in Taiwan. Despite Gold Apollo denying any connection on the manufacturing side, this raises questions:
Person of interest:
On the 19th, the reporter of the Central News Agency actually went to the BAC office in Taiwan to check. The company was located in a commercial building with elevator control. After going upstairs, he found that the registered address was a shared office, and there were mailboxes of various companies outside, of which the mailbox S05 was affixed with the logo of Apollo Series Co., Ltd.
Photo by Wang Feihua, reporter of the Central News Agency, September 19, 2024 - Central News Agency.
CNA reporters visited the office located within a shared office space managed by Taiwan Asset Management Corporation (TAMCO) [台北市中山區南京東路二段85號12樓]. They observed a mailbox labeled S05, which was decorated with the Apollo Systems Ltd. logo.
CNA reporters rang the doorbell, intending to go inside for a closer look. However, after identifying themselves as journalists, they were denied access by the reception staff and were unable to confirm whether the BAC office was actively operating.
TAMCO said in a statement on Thursday that it is unaware of the business activities of its tenants and will actively cooperate with prosecutors.
According to the statement, Apollo Systems submitted preliminary documents for business registration to TAMCO on March 29 this year, applying to lease a seat in the shared office space.
TAMCO said that following a background check on the person in charge of Apollo Systems, including credit and legal records, the lease was approved.
The rental period is from April 1 this year to March 31, 2025, with a monthly rent of NT$2,800, the statement said. [NT2,800 = USD $87.46].
Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs (MOEA) said on Wednesday that Gold Apollo had no record of directly exporting products to Lebanon in recent years.
Gold Apollo manufactures and assembles its products in Taiwan, and mainly exports products to Europe and North America, the MOEA said.
Meanwhile, Zoltan Kovacs, a spokesperson for the Hungarian government said in a post on X Wednesday that BAC "is a trading intermediary, with no manufacturing or operational site in Hungary."
He added, "It has one manager registered at its declared address, and the referenced devices have never been in Hungary."
NEW UPDATE: New discovery: Bulgarian front company has been identified as part of the BAC pager bomb. According to ZeroHedge, “Preliminary reports name Norta Global Ltd to the sale of pagers to Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah, with Hungarian-based shell company BAC Consulting acting as an ‘intermediary.’"
Further, “Owned by Norwegian citizen Rinson Jose, Norta Global was founded in April 2022 and is located at a residential address in the Bulgarian capital. Like its Hungarian counterpart, Norta Global is registered with a "headquarters service provider," which hosts 196 other companies. Bulgarian state security agency, DANS, announced on Thursday that it is working with the interior ministry to probe the role of an unnamed company registered in Bulgaria in the terror attacks that rocked Lebanon this week. Furthermore, Bulgaria's state security agency said it "did not detect any shipments" of the pagers on Bulgarian territory.”
Taiwan Pager Linked to Hungary
Israeli Femme Fatale?
By Wendell Minnick (Whiskey Mike) 顏文德
TAIPEI - The Taiwan-based Gold Apollo Company that designed the AR-924 pager identified as the pager model used by Israel intelligence to attack Hezbollah terrorists, via mini-bombs, denies it had anything to do with the attack.
Instead a Hungarian company was identified as the source of the pager:
BAC Consulting KFT (LLC = Korlátolt Felelősségű Társaság), Budapest, Szőnyi út 33, 1142, Hungary. The company website is difficult to access, but I captured most of it (see below) via screen shots. See also credit report.
Te CEO, Cristiana Barsony-Arcidiacono, and her background (see below). Which has the same address and phone number of BAC.
However, nothing about her company suggests any manufacturing facility with any kind of technology at all; nothing, zero, zip.
Her bio and additional data on her company was difficult to find, but there are links to the United Nations and other international entities.
So far, Israel is not identified in any of the information, but her company website and information about her personal background are completely saturated with Woke Progressivism; almost too Woke to believe.
In her Academia link, she states her influences are “Spirit Possession (Anthropology)”, Literature, and Chess. She also listed Aby Warburg (1866–1929), a German-Jew art historian and cultural theorist.
Further:
I am a scientist using my diverse background to work on international environmental, political and humanitarian projects (disaster risk reduction systems, water, biodiversity, resilience, mitigation, adaptation, conflicts, complex emergencies, etc). Enjoy working in a multicultural environment where diversity, integrity and respect are valued.
By the time she becomes CEO of BAC, her educational and volunteer accomplishments seem virtually impossible to engineer for a single person, even if she might be filthy rich.