Businesswoman linked to Lebanon pager attack is ‘in hiding’ | World News [Video]

A woman whose company is linked to thousands of pagers that exploded in Lebanon and Syria in an attack on Hezbollah has gone into hiding, it has been revealed.

Cristiana Bársony-Arcidiacono, 49, is listed as the CEO of Budapest-based BAC Consulting and the Taiwanese trademark holder of the pagers said it was responsible for the manufacture of the devices.

These pagers killed at least 37 people and wounded more than 3,000, including civilians, an act Hezbollah and the Lebanese government has blamed on Israel, which has neither confirmed nor denied involvement.

But the Hungarian government said the pagers were never in Hungary and BAC Consultants acted as an intermediary.

However since Wednesday last week the BAC Consulting website has mysteriously been taken down.

Cristiana’s mother, Beatrix, 70, who lives in Catania, Sicily, told MailOnline, her daughter had received unspecified ‘threats’ and is now ‘somewhere safe protected by agents of the Hungarian government’.

This has been denied by Hungarian officials.

Beatrix said she had been advised …