TAIPEI (Reuters) – Taiwan prosecutors mentioned on Thursday that they’ve up to now questioned 4 individuals as witnesses of their investigation right into a Taiwanese firm linked to pagers that detonated final week in Lebanon in a lethal blow to Hezbollah.
Safety sources mentioned Israel was liable for the pager explosions that raised the stakes in a rising battle between the 2 sides. Israel has neither confirmed nor denied its involvement.
How or when the pagers had been weaponised and remotely detonated stays a public thriller and the hunt for solutions has concerned Taiwan, Bulgaria, Norway and Romania.
Taiwan-based Gold Apollo mentioned final week it didn’t manufacture the units used within the assault, and that Hungary-based firm BAC to which the pagers had been traced had a licence to make use of its model. Taiwan’s authorities additionally mentioned the pagers weren’t made in Taiwan.
A spokesperson for the Shilin District Prosecutors Workplace in Taipei, which has been main the probe into Gold Apollo, mentioned along with two individuals questioned final week it had additionally questioned one present and one former worker as witnesses.
“We are processing this case expeditiously and seeking resolution as soon as possible,” the spokesperson added, declining to call the individuals questioned or say whether or not prosecutors deliberate to query additional individuals.
Final week, prosecutors questioned Gold Apollo’s president and founder, Hsu Ching-kuang, and Teresa Wu, the only worker of an organization known as Apollo Techniques.
Gold Apollo has not commented on that investigation and didn’t reply to an extra request for touch upon Thursday.
Reuters has not be capable to attain Wu for remark. Neither answered reporter questions final week once they left the prosecutors’ workplace.
