The devices which exploded in Lebanon and Syria were branded Gold Apollo. But the company says it did not make them. Instead they directed us to a Hungarian business - BAC Consulting.
This is what happened when we turned up at their registered address
This is what happened when we turned up at their registered address
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00:00We tracked down the company linked to the exploding pagers that have killed a
00:04dozen people and injured thousands in Lebanon. The investigation began with
00:10the charred remains of these devices, each bearing the logo of Gold Apollo. The
00:15company based in Taipei claimed the pages were produced under license by BAC
00:21Consulting in Hungary. BAC registered address is just a collection of
00:26mailboxes in a residential building. So we headed over to the home of its
00:31ceo, Kristina Arciadakono Barsonyi on the outlying districts of Budapest.
00:37There's no one in and neighbors say they haven't seen her for months. They
00:42said she described herself as a scientist who had once been rejected
00:47for a job at NASA for being over qualified. The Hungarian government has
00:52now issued a statement that the company is just a trading intermediary and
00:57doesn't manufacture anything in the country. The mystery of who truly
01:02supplied the deadly devices remains unsolved.