Taiwan prosecutors said on Thursday they had already questioned four people as witnesses in their investigation into a Taiwanese company linked to pagers that exploded in Lebanon last week, dealing a significant blow to Hezbollah, Reuters reported.
Thousands of pagers and walkie-talkies held by Hezbollah members exploded simultaneously in two waves on Sept. 17 and 18, killing 37 and injuring some 3,000.
Security sources said Israel was responsible for the pager explosions, which has raised tensions in the growing conflict between the two sides. Israel has neither confirmed nor denied its involvement.
How and when the beepers were weaponized and triggered remotely remains a public mystery. The search for answers has involved Taiwan, Bulgaria, Norway and Romania.
Taiwan-based Gold Apollo said last week that it did not make the devices used in the attack and that Hungary-based BAC, which was credited with the pagers, had a license to use its brand. The Taiwanese government also said the pagers were not made in Taiwan.
A spokesperson for the Shilin District Prosecutors' Office in Taipei, which led the investigation into Gold Apollo, said that in addition to the two people questioned last week, it had also questioned a current employee and a former employee as witnesses.
"We are handling this case diligently and seeking to resolve it as quickly as possible," the spokesperson added, declining to name those questioned or say whether prosecutors planned to question others.
Last week, prosecutors questioned Gold Apollo chairman and founder Hsu Ching-kuang and Teresa Wu, the sole employee of a company called Apollo Systems.
Gold Apollo did not comment on the investigation and did not respond to another request for comment Thursday.
Reuters was unable to reach Wu for comment. Neither responded to reporters' questions last week as they left the prosecutors' office.
This article originally appeared in French in L'Orient-Le Jour.
