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plywood replied at 19-9-2024 12:46 PM
What was Hungarian company's role in manufacturing pagers that exploded in Lebanon?        

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https://www.timesofisrael.com/cr ... d-exploding-pagers/

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Mahathirina replied at 23-9-2024 02:14 AM
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Cristiana Barsony-Arcidiacono, mystery woman whose company licensed exploding pagers


BUDAPEST, Sept 20 (Reuters) – She speaks seven languages, has a PhD in particle physics, an apartment in Budapest plastered with her own pastel drawings of nudes, and a career that took her around Africa and Europe doing humanitarian work.

What Cristiana Barsony-Arcidiacono, 49, the Italian-Hungarian CEO and owner of Hungary-based BAC Consulting, says she hasn’t done is make the exploding pagers that killed 12 people and wounded more than 2,000 in Lebanon this week.

After her company was revealed to have licensed the design for the pagers from their original Taiwanese manufacturer Gold Apollo, Barsony-Arcidiacono told NBC News that she didn’t make them.

“I am just the intermediate. I think you got it wrong,” she said.

Since then, she has not appeared in public. Neighbors say they haven’t seen her. Barsony-Arcidiacono has not responded to calls and emails and there was no answer when Reuters visited her private address in downtown Budapest. Her flat in a stately old Budapest building, where a door to a vestibule had been open earlier in the week, has been shuttered.

On Saturday, the Hungarian government said that its intelligence services have conducted several interviews with Barsony-Arcidiacono since the explosions.

Following publication of this story, Reuters again reached out to her but received no reply. The Hungarian government said on Wednesday that BAC Consulting was a “trading-intermediary company” that had no manufacturing site in the country and that the pagers had never been to Hungary.

The New York Times reported earlier this week that BAC Consulting was part of a front set up by figures in Israeli intelligence. Two other shell companies were also created to help mask the link between BAC and the Israelis, according to the report. The Times claimed that rather than merely managing to tamper with the devices at some stage of their production or distribution, Israel actually “manufactured them as part of an elaborate ruse.”


Pieces of an exploded pager in a picture circulating on social media, September 17, 2024. (via telegram)

Discussions with Barsony-Arcidiacono’s acquaintances and former work colleagues paint a picture of a woman with an impressive intellect and a peripatetic career in a string of short-term jobs in which she never quite settled down.

An acquaintance of hers, who like others who knew her socially in Budapest asked not to be identified, called her “Good-willed, not a business type.” The person said she appeared to be someone who was always enthusiastic about trying something new and readily believed things.

Kilian Kleinschmidt, a veteran ex-UN humanitarian administrator who hired Barsony-Arcidiacono in 2019 to run a six-month Dutch-funded program to train Libyans in Tunisia in subjects such as hydroponics, IT and business development, described hiring her as a big “mistake.” After disagreements about how she managed staff, he said he let her go before her contract was over, which Reuters could not independently verify.

At her Budapest home, a steel outer gate encloses a small vestibule where life drawings of nudes sketched in red and orange pastels can be seen taped up on the wall. An inner door leading into her apartment was ajar when Reuters first visited the building on Wednesday, and closed when the reporter returned on Thursday. No one answered the bell.

A woman living in the building for the past two years said Barsony-Arcidiacono was already a resident when she moved in, and described her as kind, not loud, but communicative.

She practiced her drawing as part of a Budapest art club, though she hadn’t attended for a couple of years, said the organizer of the group, who said she seemed like more of a businesswoman than an artist, but was upbeat and outgoing.

A schoolmate of Barsony-Arcidiacono said she grew up in a family with a working father and housewife mother in Santa Venerina, near Catania in eastern Sicily, and attended high school nearby. He described her as a quite reserved youngster.

In the early 2000s, she earned her PhD in physics at University College London, where her dissertation on positrons – a subatomic particle with the mass of an electron and a positive charge – remains available on the UCL website. But she appears to have left without pursuing a scientific career.

“As far as I know she has not done scientific work since then,” Akos Torok, a retired physicist who was one of her professors at UCL and published papers with her at the time, told Reuters by email.

A resume she used to get the job working for Kleinschmidt included references to other post-graduate degrees, in politics and development, from the London School of Economics and the School of Oriental and African Studies, which Reuters was not able to verify.

She then went on to describe a string of jobs working on NGO projects in Europe, Africa and the Middle East.



This photo shows a house where a Hungarian company, BAC Consulting, which allegedly manufactured pagers that exploded while targeting Hezbollah members in Lebanon and Syria, is headquartered in Budapest, September 18, 2024. (AP Photo/Denes Erdos)

In a separate CV on the BAC Consulting website, she described herself as a “Board Member at the Earth Child Institute,” an educational and environmental charity in New York. The group’s founder, Donna Goodman, told Reuters Barsony-Arcidiacono had never held any role there.

“She was a friend of a friend of a board member, and contacted us about a job opening” in 2018, Goodman said. “But she was never invited to apply.”

That CV also described her as a former “Project Manager” at the International Atomic Energy Agency in 2008-2009, who organized a nuclear research conference. The IAEA said its records indicated she had been an intern there for eight months.

On BAC Consulting’s website, which was taken down by the end of this week, the company gave little idea of its actual business in Hungary. Its registered address is a serviced office in a Budapest suburb.

“I am a scientist using my very diverse background to work on interdisciplinary projects for strategic decision-making(water & climate policy, investments),” Barsony-Arcidiacono wrote on her CV.

“With excellent analytical, language, and interpersonal skills, I enjoy working and leading in a multicultural environment where diversity, integrity, and humor are valued.”

Times of Israel staff contributed to this report.

plywood

Woman whose firm was linked to exploding pagers is being protected by Hungary's secret service, her mother says

The woman whose company was linked to thousands of pagers that exploded in Lebanon and Syria this week is under the protection of the Hungarian secret services, her mother told The Associated Press on Friday.

Cristiana Bársony-Arcidiacono has not appeared publicly since the deadly simultaneous attack that targeted Iran-backed Hezbollah on Tuesday and that has been widely blamed on Israel. She is listed as the CEO of Budapest-based BAC Consulting, which the Taiwanese trademark holder of the pagers said was responsible for the manufacture of the devices.

Her mother, Beatrix Bársony-Arcidiacono, told the AP that her daughter had received unspecified threats and "is currently in a safe place protected by the Hungarian secret services."

The "Hungarian secret services advised her not to talk to media," she said by phone from Sicily.

Hungary's national security authorities did not immediately respond to a request for comment, and the AP could not independently verify the claim.

Two days of attacks this week, first targeting pagers and then walkie-talkies, killed at least 37 people and wounded more than 3,000, including civilians. Hezbollah and the Lebanese government blamed Israel, which has neither confirmed nor denied involvement.



Cristiana Barsony-Arcidiacono
An undated selfie of Cristiana Barsony-Arcidiacono Cristiana Barsony-Arcidiacono via Facebook/via REUTERS

Cristiana Bársony-Arcidiacono's company came under scrutiny after Gold Apollo, a Taiwanese firm, said it had authorized BAC Consulting to use its name on the pagers that were used in the first attack, but that the Hungarian company was responsible for manufacturing and design.

On Wednesday, a Hungarian government spokesman said the pagers delivered to Hezbollah were never in Hungary, and that BAC Consulting merely acted as an intermediary.

Beatrix Bársony-Arcidiacono, who also uses the name Beatrice, echoed that.

"She is not involved in any way, she was just a broker. The items did not pass through Budapest. ... They were not produced in Hungary," she said.

BAC Consulting shares the ground floor of a modest building in Budapest with numerous other enterprises, but has no physical offices and uses the property in Hungary's capital - like the other companies based there - only as an official address, according to a woman who emerged from the building earlier this week and refused to be named.

The company's website said it specialized in "environment, development, and international affairs." The corporate registry listed 118 official functions including sugar and oil production, retail jewelry sales and natural gas extraction.

The company brought in $725,000 in revenue in 2022 and $593,000 in 2023, according to the company registry. Last year, the company spent nearly $324,000, or around 55% of its revenue, on "equipment."

Business records accessed by CBS News from Hungary's Ministry of Justice show that BAC Consulting was registered as a company in May 2022.

Beatrix Bársony-Arcidiacono said her daughter was born in Sicily and studied at the University of Catania before pursuing a Ph.D. in London. She worked in Paris and Vienna before moving to Budapest in October 2016 to care for her elderly grandmother.

On social media, the younger Bársony-Arcidiacono describes herself as a strategic adviser and business developer who has worked for major international organizations as well as for venture capital firms. Her company's website says she has a doctorate in physics.

The 49-year-old received the degree from University College London, where she was enrolled in the early to mid-2000s, according to her LinkedIn page. There, she worked with Ákos Kövér, a Hungarian physicist and now-retired professor, who confirmed her enrollment.

Kövér said in an email to the AP: "At the time, we also published some joint articles. I am not aware of her other activities."

She interned at the International Atomic Energy Agency in 2008 and 2009, as confirmed by the agency, and once co-authored a paper for a UNESCO conference discussing the management of underground water.

On her social media accounts, she posted pictures from France, the U.K. and other places, mostly selfies or photos of places she said she was visiting. Few friends interacted with her messages, some inviting her to come visit or commenting on her appearance.

She speaks English, French, Italian and Hungarian, according to her social media, where she has occasionally made comments criticizing Ukraine or in support of children in Gaza.

Meanwhile, the Israeli military said it carried out a "targeted strike" in Beirut on Friday, killing at least eight people, including Hezbollah commander Ibrahim Aqil.

The United States had previously offered a "reward of up to $7 million for information leading to the identification, location, arrest, and/or conviction," of Aqil, who it said was a leader of Hezbollah in the 1980s, when the group claimed responsibility for the 1983 bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Beirut.

The White House earlier warned both Israel and Hezbollah against "escalation of any kind" following this week's synchronized pager and walkie talkie explosions, but overnight, Israeli warplanes carried out dozens of strikes across southern Lebanon, and Hezbollah has continued firing back.

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plywood replied at 23-9-2024 10:11 AM
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