Hsu earlier said the firm with the licence was based in Europe but later declined to comment on BAC’s location.
He added there had been problems with remittances from the firm.
“The remittance was very strange,” he said, adding that payments had come through the Middle East. He did not elaborate further.
Hezbollah fighters began using pagers in the belief they would be able to evade Israeli tracking of their locations, two sources familiar with the group’s operations told Reuters this year.
Hsu said he did not know how the pagers could have been rigged to explode.
While Hsu was meeting with reporters, police officials arrived at the company. Officials from Taiwan’s economy ministry also visited Gold Apollo.
The ministry said in a statement that there was no record of direct pager exports from Taiwan to Lebanon.
Hsu also said that Gold Apollo was a victim of the incident and planned to sue the licensee.
“We may not be a large company but we are a responsible one,” he said. “This is very embarrassing.”
Source: CNA
