Components for pagers used in Lebanon blasts not from Taiwan, minister says

CEO of Taiwan-based Gold Apollo released after questioning over role in deadly explosions.

Components used in thousands of pagers that detonated on Tuesday in Lebanon in a deadly blow to Hezbollah were not made in Taiwan, Taiwan’s economy minister has said.

Taiwan-based Gold Apollo said this week it did not manufacture the devices used in the attack, and that Budapest-based company BAC to which the pagers were traced has a licence to use its brand.

It was not clear how or when the pagers…