Native media reported that the second individual questioned was Wu Yu-jen, a consultant linked to BAC Consulting KFT, who had arrange an organization primarily based in Taipei known as “Apollo Programs”.
“Our nation takes the case very critically,” mentioned the prosecutors’ workplace in Taipei’s Shilin district in an announcement on Friday.
“We instructed the Investigation Bureau’s nationwide safety station to additional interview two individuals from Taiwanese firms as witnesses yesterday.”
The 2 witnesses had been allowed to depart after a number of rounds of questioning.
“We are going to make clear the details as quickly as potential corresponding to whether or not Taiwanese firms are concerned or not,” the workplace mentioned.
It additionally mentioned investigators had searched 4 places, together with in New Taipei Metropolis’s Xizhi district, the place Gold Apollo is situated, and in Taipei’s Neihu district.
Neihu district is the listed deal with of Apollo Programs, based on an organization registry web site, which confirmed that the agency was established in April this 12 months.
Wu didn’t converse to reporters when she was introduced in for questioning Thursday, based on native TV footage.
Financial Minister Kuo Jyh-huei advised reporters Friday that Gold Apollo’s made-in-Taiwan pagers consisted of parts that had been “low-end IC (built-in circuits) and batteries”.
“This stuff wouldn’t explode,” he mentioned, including that Gold Apollo had exported 260,000 pagers prior to now two years and “there has by no means been an explosion”.
When pressed on the pagers in Lebanon utilized by Hezbollah operatives, he mentioned: “We will be sure that they don’t seem to be produced in Taiwan.”
Premier Cho Jung-tai additionally reiterated Friday that “the corporate and Taiwan didn’t instantly export pagers to Lebanon”.
Earlier this week, Gold Apollo mentioned the pager mannequin talked about in media studies “is produced and bought by BAC”.
However a Hungarian authorities spokesman mentioned BAC Consulting KFT was “a buying and selling middleman, with no manufacturing or operational web site in Hungary”.
