Native media reported that the second individual questioned was Wu Yu-jen, a consultant linked to BAC Consulting KFT, who had arrange an organization based mostly in Taipei known as “Apollo Methods”.
“Our nation takes the case very significantly,” stated 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 corporations as witnesses yesterday.”
The 2 witnesses have been allowed to go away after a number of rounds of questioning.
“We are going to make clear the info as quickly as doable corresponding to whether or not Taiwanese corporations are concerned or not,” the workplace stated.
It additionally stated 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 Methods, in line with an organization registry web site, which confirmed that the agency was established in April this yr.
Wu didn’t converse to reporters when she was introduced in for questioning Thursday, in line with native TV footage.
Financial Minister Kuo Jyh-huei instructed reporters Friday that Gold Apollo’s made-in-Taiwan pagers consisted of elements that have been “low-end IC (built-in circuits) and batteries”.
“These items wouldn’t explode,” he stated, including that Gold Apollo had exported 260,000 pagers up 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 stated: “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 straight export pagers to Lebanon”.
Earlier this week, Gold Apollo stated the pager mannequin talked about in media experiences “is produced and bought by BAC”.
However a Hungarian authorities spokesman stated BAC Consulting KFT was “a buying and selling middleman, with no manufacturing or operational web site in Hungary”.