This is going to be interesting to follow the chain.
"That product isn't ours. They just stick on our company brand," Mr. Hsu told journalists, adding that in return his company received a share of the profits.
"We only provide brand trademark authorization and have no involvement in the design or manufacturing of this product," Gold Apollo said in a written statement. Even so, the Gold Apollo website
displayed a picture of the pager model until the web page was taken down on Wednesday.
Some of the officials briefed on the operation had said that the pagers, which Hezbollah had ordered, had been tampered with before they reached Lebanon, and that most were Gold Apollo's AR924 model, though three other Gold Apollo models were also included in the shipment.
In a separate statement, Gold Apollo said that the AR924 model was produced and sold by B.A.C., with which it had a "long-term partnership." "Our company only provides the brand trademark authorization and is not involved in the design or manufacturing of this product," the company said.
Efforts to contact B.A.C. and verify Gold Apollo's account were not immediately successful.
Cristiana Brsony-Arcidiacono, who lists herself as the chief executive of B.A.C. Consulting on
LinkedIn, did not immediately respond to messages. "I don't make the pagers,"
she told NBC News. "I am just the intermediate."