(18 Sep 2024)
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New Taipei, Taiwan – 18 September 2024
1. Wide of entrance of Taiwanese pager company Gold Apollo in Taipei
2. Chairman Hsu Ching-kuang arriving with police
3. Wide of Hsu pointing at pictures on the wall bearing the images of his products
4. Close-up of Hsu
5. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Hsu Ching-kuang, Chairman of Gold Apollo:
"This company (BAC) has cooperated with us and represents many of our products for about three years. They also wanted to make pagers and asked me if they could use our company’s brand name. Each pager paid us the brand name fee and they designed it themselves."
Officer (off camera): "Are you 100% sure the products are not manufactured in Taiwan and are not your company’s?"
Hsu: ‘I’m 100% sure it’s (pagers found in explosion) not our product."
6. Logo of Gold Apollo
7. Wide of Hsu speaking to journalists
8. Hsu walking out of office
9. SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Hsu Ching-kuang, Chairman of Gold Apollo
"I am the chairman of Gold Apollo. I am here to explain to you today that we have established a long-term brand OEM authorization with BAC in the past three years. We have an agency cooperation relationship and a cooperation agreement. We license our company’s trademark (brand name) to them, and the products discovered in the explosion are not our products."
10. Police coming out of the office
STORYLINE:
Taiwanese company Gold Apollo said on Wednesday it authorized its brand on the pagers that exploded in Lebanon and Syria but that another company manufactured them.
Hsu Ching-kuang, chairman of Gold Apollo, said the pagers used by Lebanon’s Hezbollah militant group were produced and sold by a company called BAC that was authorized to use his company’s trademark in some regions.
“We license our company’s trademark to them, and the products discovered in the explosion are not our products," Hsu told reporters.
Further information on BAC wasn’t immediately available.
Pagers used by hundreds of members of Hezbollah exploded almost simultaneously, killing at least nine people — including an 8-year-old girl — and wounding thousands more.
A U.S. official said Israel briefed the U.S. on the operation — in which small amounts of explosive secreted in the pagers were detonated — after it was concluded.
The Iran-backed militant group blamed Israel for the deadly explosions, which targeted an extraordinary breadth of people and showed signs of being a long-planned operation.
Experts believe explosive material was put into the pagers prior to their delivery and use in a sophisticated instance of supply-chain interference.
AP video shot by Johnson Lai and Taijing Wu
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