Norwegian businessman linked to Hezbollah vanishes in the US
In Norway, a man allegedly connected to delivering telecommunication equipment to the Lebanese terrorist organization Hezbollah has gone missing. Recently, many key members of this group were killed due to explosions in pagers and walkie-talkies.
5:49 PM EDT, September 26, 2024
The police in Oslo, the capital of Norway, received a report about the man’s disappearance. His employer had been unable to contact him for a week.
The missing Norwegian's boss reported his concerns to PST officers—the Police Security Service, a government agency responsible for counterintelligence.
Current findings indicate that the missing person was supposed to attend a business conference in Boston last week. It has been confirmed that he entered the United States, but there has been no trace of him since then.
“The report about the disappearance reached us yesterday. A representative of the Norwegian police, Mari Elise Bunes Myhrer, mentioned in an interview with the "Verdens Gang" newspaper that an international missing person notice had been issued through Interpol today.
The missing Norwegian was connected with supplying electronics to Hezbollah
The missing Norwegian appears in Bulgarian records as the founder and owner of a company that supplied walkie-talkies and pagers to Hezbollah. These devices were said to be manufactured in Taiwan, but the patent owner denied that the equipment was produced in his factories.
From Taiwan, the electronic devices made their way to Europe through a company registered in Hungary, and then they ended up in Bulgaria. Intelligence services in Sofia deny having any knowledge of illegal activity by the Norwegian-owned company.
Attack in Lebanon. Electronics exploded
A series of explosions swept through Libya and Syria in mid-September. Over 3,000 pages, fitted with explosive charges during production, exploded. According to official data, Israeli intelligence knew in advance that they would reach members of Hezbollah, an organization hostile to Israel and supported by Iran.
Dozens of people were killed, including a child standing next to their father, and over 4,000 were injured—significantly more than the number of devices. Among the victims were also members of Hezbollah, which blamed Israel for the attack and announced retaliation.
