Trail of exploding pagers in Lebanon runs to Taiwan, Hungary [Video]

BUDAPEST/TAIPEI – The trail of the pagers that blew up in Lebanon on Sept 17, killing or maiming thousands and sparking fears of a new Middle East war, leads to a small post office wedged between a highway and a dilapidated railway station in Budapest, Hungary.

That is the official address for BAC Consulting KFT, which produced them under a commercial agreement, according to Gold Apollo, the Taiwanese company whose brand was on the exploding devices. 

But a woman at the Budapest office said the only sign she had seen of BAC was monthly visits from a representative to pick up the mail. A building in Paris listed as the address of BAC’s chief executive turned out to be barracks for French gendarmes.

The company “is a trading intermediary with no manufacturing or operational site in Hungary”, according to the government in Budapest.

In Taiwan, Mr Hsu Ching-kuang, Gold Apollo’s …