Businesswoman linked to Lebanon pager attack is now ‘in hiding’

A pistillate whose institution is linked to thousands of pagers that exploded successful Lebanon and Syria successful an onslaught connected Hezbollah has gone into hiding, it has been revealed.

Cristiana Bársony-Arcidiacono, 49, is listed arsenic the CEO of Budapest-based BAC Consulting and the Taiwanese trademark holder of the pagers said it was liable for the manufacture of the devices.

These pagers killed astatine slightest 37 radical and wounded much than 3,000, including civilians, an enactment Hezbollah and the Lebanese government has blamed connected Israel, which has neither confirmed nor denied involvement.

But the Hungarian authorities said the pagers were ne'er successful Hungary and BAC Consultants acted arsenic an intermediary.

However since Wednesday past week the BAC Consulting website has mysteriously been taken down.

Cristiana’s mother, Beatrix, 70, who lives successful Catania, Sicily, told MailOnline, her girl had received unspecified ‘threats’ and is present ‘somewhere harmless protected by agents of the Hungarian government’.

This has been denied by Hungarian officials.

Beatrix said she had been advised not to speech to media by the Hungarian concealed services and said: ‘No comment, nary comment.’

She did accidental she has been successful interaction with her girl though and said she was not progressive successful the plot.

The parent told Associated Press: ‘She is not progressive successful immoderate way, she was conscionable a broker. The items did not walk done Budapest. … They were not produced successful Hungary.’

Neighbours successful Catania expressed their daze astatine the information that Cristiana could beryllium progressive successful thing similar this.

A idiosyncratic who knows the household said: ‘She could not person known.

‘She is simply a precise clever woman from a respectable household and she would ne'er person done thing similar this. If it is true, past they indispensable person tricked her.’

A household person told La Sicilia newspaper: ‘I didn’t judge that Cristiana was the proprietor of a institution susceptible of specified a precocious illustration business.’

Cristiana gained a PhD from University College London successful Physics according to her LinkedIn profile.

She worked with present retired Hungarian prof and physicist Ákos Kövér.

He told AP: ‘At the time, we besides published immoderate associated articles. I americium not alert of her different activities, arsenic acold arsenic I cognize she has not done immoderate technological enactment since then.’

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