Daily Mail: The businessman who sold pagers to Lebanon disappeared

A Norwegian citizen who owns a company that was allegedly involved in the supply of pagers to Lebanon disappeared after their explosions, writes the British newspaper Daily Mail.

Earlier, the Taiwanese manufacturer of Gold Apollo pagers said that the batch of pagers detonated in Lebanon was produced by the Budapest firm BAC Consulting Kft. under license. The Hungarian government said that the company was an intermediary and the pagers had never been in the country. It was reported that the Bulgarian company Norta Global Ltd also participated in the deal.

According to the publication, the owner of Norta Global is 39-year-old Norwegian of Indian origin Rinson Yossi (Rinson Jose).

Yossi is supposed to have left on a pre-planned business trip on Tuesday. However, the management of his main employer, the Norwegian media conglomerate NHST, has since been unable to contact him and on Wednesday evening contacted the Norwegian security service, the newspaper notes.

The Oslo police announced the next day that they had "launched a preliminary investigation in connection with the information that has emerged."

As noted, so far there is no reason to believe that the Norwegian citizen was in any way aware of the secret operation to plant explosives in the pagers.

Communications equipment, including pagers and walkie-talkies, detonated in different parts of Lebanon on September 17 and 18. According to official data, 32 people were killed, more than 3 thousand injured. It is not yet known what caused the simultaneous explosion of thousands of devices. Hezbollah and the Lebanese authorities blamed Israel for the incident. The Israeli authorities have not yet confirmed or denied their involvement.