Police in Norway have issued an international search warrant for their citizen of Indian origin, in connection with the sale of pagers to the Lebanese group “Hezbollah”, which blew up last week and killed dozens of people, NOVA reported. >
39-year-old Rinson Jose, the founder of the Bulgarian company believed to be part of the pager supply chain, disappeared while on a business trip in the US last week. He was supposed to appear at a conference in Boston but never went, according to Norwegian media. He did not go home and back on the flight he had a ticket for at the weekend.
On Thursday, the Oslo police said: “Yesterday, the Oslo police district received a missing person report in connection with the pager case. A missing persons case has been opened and we have sent an international search warrant for the person”.
Jose refused to comment on the case with the pagers when “Reuters” contacted him on September 18, and hung up after being asked about his business in Bulgaria. After that, he did not respond to numerous calls and messages, writes the British newspaper “Guardian”.
His employer, DN Media Group, reported that Jose, who works in the Norwegian media company's sales department, left for a conference in Boston on September 17 and could not be reached by the company the following day. According to the commercial register of Bulgaria, Jose founded Norta Global Ltd in 2022 with headquarters in the capital Sofia.
A company in Hungary is also listed as a seller by the pagers, which it has denied. From there they claim that they are only an intermediary.
The security committee in the Hungarian parliament has already received information from the Hungarian counterintelligence about the pagers, wrote the head of the committee Sás Zoltan on his Facebook profile.
„The Commission received the following information: Behind the production and sale of the pagers is a network of several companies. They are not made in Hungary and the products have never been in Hungary. Companies registered in Hungary and Bulgaria participated in their sale. These companies were “just a middleman”, probably to cover the actual source. The pagers are believed to have reached users on the Taiwan - Hong Kong route – Lebanon“, he wrote.
We recall that the unprecedented pager attacks, for which Israel was blamed, led to the death of 12 people, including two children, and injured up to 2,800 people. The next day, 25 people were killed and more than 450 injured in walkie-talkie explosions in Lebanese supermarkets, at funerals and in the streets.