The occurrence of deadly explosions that have shed the blood of dozens of innocent people throughout Lebanon, and the traces of the Israeli regime can be seen all along its path, have drawn attention to a company that is seen as the seller of deadly communication devices to Lebanon’s Hezbollah; The clues reach a mysterious woman who only calls herself a middleman and broker and is not available.
Eviralnews,, in a quiet neighborhood in the capital of Hungary, in a duplex, there is the headquarters of a company that is related to the manufacture of pagers that were exploded in Lebanon and Syria as part of the Israeli regime’s open operation against the Lebanese Hezbollah resistance group.
BAC Consulting shares the ground floor of a simple building in Budapest with other companies. On Wednesday morning, Associated Press reporters saw the names of several companies, including BAC, mounted on scraps of printer paper taped to a window. In its registration, the company lists 118 official activities, including sugar and oil production, jewelry retail, and natural gas extraction.
According to reports, the BAC company had provided thousands of pager devices that killed at least 12 people, including two children, and injured around 2,800 people in a coordinated attack on Tuesday. Hezbollah and the Lebanese government have strongly condemned the Israeli regime for this.
In addition, more attacks were reported on Wednesday, when Japanese walkie-talkie (wireless) devices and solar equipment were detonated in several parts of Lebanon. According to the Lebanese Ministry of Health, the second wave of attacks left at least 20 dead and more than 450 wounded.
The Taiwanese company whose brand appears on the blasted pagers is Gold Apollo, which on Wednesday claimed to have licensed its name on the devices to a company based in Hungary. In a statement, Gold Apollo said: “BAC is allowed to use our brand to sell the products in the designated territories, but the design and manufacture of the products is solely the responsibility of BAC.”
A spokesperson of the Hungarian government also said that the pagers were never in Hungary and the BAC company only acted as an intermediary.
Meanwhile, the American newspaper New York Times reported in a report referring to the first wave of explosions in Lebanon on Tuesday in connection with pagers that were believed to have been sent to Lebanon from Taiwan or its subsidiary company in Budapest, the Israeli regime reported a fake company called BAC was founded and established as an international pager manufacturer based in Hungary.
According to this report, at least 2 other cover companies were created to hide the identity of the Israeli intelligence officers involved in this incident. These pagers contained batteries containing PETN explosives, and Israel began sending small numbers of these pagers to Lebanon in the summer of 2022 and then ramped up production.
Shipments of pagers increased over the summer, with thousands distributed among Lebanese Hezbollah officers and allies, the report said. The explosives were detonated remotely with a message in Arabic apparently sent by Hezbollah leadership. The operation was carried out on Tuesday and was followed by further detonations of IEDs on Wednesday.
On Wednesday, the international spokesperson of the Hungarian Prime Minister wrote on the “X” social network: “The authorities have confirmed that the company in question is a commercial intermediary and does not have any production or operational sites in Hungary.” “The company has registered a manager at its stated address and the referred devices have never been in Hungary.”
He did not specify where the pagers were made, adding that Hungary’s national security services cooperate with international partners and that this does not pose any threat to Hungary’s national security.
The mysterious woman linked to the explosions in Lebanon
BAC Consulting, which was incorporated as a limited liability company in May 2022, had revenue of $725,000 in 2022 and $593,000 in 2023, according to the company’s filing. Its CEO is Cristiana Barsoni-Arcidiacono, who introduces herself on LinkedIn as a strategic consultant and business developer with a Ph.D.
The Associated Press tried to reach the mystery woman via email and social media sites, but did not receive a response. It is unclear what, if any, connection this person or BAC had to the deadly Lebanon attack.
Christiana describes herself as a physicist and consultant on projects to solve environmental and political issues. In 2022, he wrote a paper for the UNESCO Conference on Groundwater Management.
Among other positions, she is seen as a board member of the Earth Child Foundation, but the group does not list Christiana as a board member on its website. She has also introduced herself as a strategic advisor to major international organizations such as the International Atomic Energy Agency and the humanitarian agency Kerr, as well as a member of venture capital companies. The International Atomic Energy Agency confirmed that a person named Cristiana Barsoni-Arcidiacono was an intern at the agency for nine months in 2008 and 2009. But other relationships cannot be verified.
The website of Suri BAC Consulting, which has been down since Wednesday, described the firm’s areas of expertise as “environment, development and international affairs.” Phone calls to the mentioned number for this company remained unanswered.
A woman who came out of the Budapest building where the company is headquartered on Wednesday said the site was used as a service to provide addresses to companies. He did not give his name and did not introduce himself.
Social media accounts show Barsoni-Arcidiacono studied at the London School of Economics and Political Science and the School of Oriental and African Studies. He has also published scientific articles on water ionization, climate change and other topics in the natural sciences. An Instagram account features many of his “photos and designs from around the world.”
At the same time, the Hebrew media “Yediot Aharonot” reported that the fate of the company, which is apparently the producer of Pager and was introduced as BAC, is shrouded in uncertainty after the explosions in Lebanon, and the CEO of this company denies involvement in it.
According to the report, the woman listed as its CEO claims she is merely a “broker.” The listed company’s address points to a private residence, and the company’s website, which was full of generic images and vague descriptions of the projects, has since been taken down.
However, the Hebrew media reported that Christiana Arcidiacono-Barsoni, named as BAC’s CEO, denied any involvement in the story during a call to an Italian news agency, saying before quickly hanging up: “I’m a pager. I don’t make I am just a dealer. I think you got the wrong person.
The search for the origin of the civilian tools and equipment that exploded in the hands of nearly 3,000 people in Lebanon leads entirely to a mysterious woman who identified herself as Dr. Cristiana Barsoni-Arcidiacono. His PhD, apparently from the London School of Economics, covers areas that have nothing to do with the development, manufacture or supply of mobile communication devices.
However, there is no trace of such a deal with BAC, although Hsu Ching-kuang, chairman of Taiwan’s powerful Gold Apollo in Taipei, says he licensed BAC to make pagers similar to those made by Gold Apollo three years ago.
“Well, I don’t make these pagers,” Ms. Barsoni-Arcidiacono also told NBC News. I’m just an intermediary. I think you misunderstood.”
The reporter of the 11 TV channel of the Israeli regime also went to Budapest and to the office of the BAC company and clearly said that this is not a real company and that the information service that did the work needed a fake company to be able to ensure that everything is correct. He also says that the LinkedIn profile information is not correct.
This Israeli reporter says: “The story is this. This is the Hungarian company that provided the pager devices that exploded in the Lebanese capital. We will try to get a little closer. We are in a peripheral area of Budapest, the capital of Hungary. The intelligence agency reminded me that we do not know who carried out the operation. It took a fictitious company to connect to a real one in order for Hezbollah to believe it and buy its pagers, so everything appears to be according to the company’s website. Its offices have a LinkedIn CEO profile None of these are true. Where exactly were the pagers produced? We cannot tell you exactly how they got into the hands of Hezbollah. “We can’t tell you exactly, but Hezbollah was convinced that a real company was behind these devices.”
