Hungary's intelligence services have questioned Cristiana Barsoni Arcidiaconu, chief executive of Budapest-based BAC Consulting, linked to the pagers that exploded in Lebanon days ago, the government said on Saturday.
Taiwanese pager manufacturer Gold Apollo said on Wednesday that the model of the devices used in the Lebanon explosions was manufactured by BAC Consulting, adding that it had only granted the company its trademark and was not involved in the production of the devices.
Arcidiacono, owner and CEO of BAC Consulting, told NBC News last week that she did not manufacture the pagers and was “just the middleman.”
The Hungarian government's international press office said in a statement that the Hungarian intelligence services have been conducting their investigations since Wednesday, and that they have interrogated Parsoni Arcidiaconu several times.
The international press office issued its statement quoting the Office for the Protection of the Constitution, a Hungarian intelligence agency.
The Office for the Protection of the Constitution confirmed an earlier government statement that the pagers used in the mass bombings had never existed in Hungary.
Prime Minister Viktor Orban's government has previously said that BAC Consulting is a commercial brokerage company that “has no manufacturing or operational location in Hungary.”
On Tuesday and Wednesday, 37 people were killed and more than 3,250 others were injured, including children and women, in a wave of explosions that hit Pager and Icom wireless communication devices in Lebanon, while Beirut and…Hezbollah Israel is responsible for the attack.