Norwegian authorities issue international wanted notice for Kerala-born businessman linked to Israel’s exploding pagers scheme

10/03/2024 / By Belle Carter

Norwegian authorities have issued an international wanted notice for Kerala, India-born Norwegian businessman Rinson Jose, whose name was linked to Israel’s attack on Hezbollah pagers. According to reports, Jose has gone missing while on a work trip in the United States.

Jose, 39, is believed to have founded the Bulgarian company that was reportedly a crucial part of the pagers’ supply chain.

Earlier in September, Lebanon was rocked by a two-day wave of explosions from rigged communications devices mostly used by Hezbollah members. First were pagers, then walkie-talkies. At least 37 died, including innocent women and children, while over 3,000 were wounded, the vast majority of whom were civilian bystanders who were close to the devices when they detonated.

“We have on behalf of the Oslo police sent out an international wanted notice today,” Aste Dahle Sundet, a spokeswoman for Norway’s National Criminal Investigation Service (NCIS) told the Associated Press (AP).

Jose’s Norwegian employer, DN Media Group, said he left for a conference in Boston on Sept. 17. The company has been unable to reach him since then. The media company’s CEO Amund Djuve told AP in an email that the company had tried to contact him but to no avail since they first heard the serious allegations about his private activity.

“We haven’t heard from him since September 18, and we don’t know where he is. This worries us,” Djuve said.

Meanwhile, Hungary’s Special Service for National Security said the CEO of BAC Consulting, a Budapest-based company initially linked to Lebanon’s deadly explosions of pagers, had been interviewed “several times” as part of an investigation.

“The results of the investigation so far have made it clear that the so-called pagers have never been on Hungarian territory, and that no Hungarian company or Hungarian expert was involved in their manufacture or modification!” the agency said in an email.

Israel concealed explosives inside batteries of pagers

According to two high-ranking Lebanese security officials, Israel carried out part of its device attack targeting Hezbollah by concealing explosives inside the batteries of pagers brought into Lebanon.

Israel has not commented directly on the attacks, but reports say that the explosions were the result of a joint operation by Israel’s intelligence service, Mossad and the Israeli military. (Related: Israel’s recent attacks on Hezbollah communications devices signal possible ground invasion of Lebanon.)

One of the high-ranking security sources said the explosive material was “laced” inside the pager’s lithium battery and was virtually undetectable.

An improvised explosive device has five key components: a power source, an initiator, a detonator, an explosive charge and a case to put it all in. Sean Moorhouse, a former British Army officer and explosive ordnance disposal expert, said that only a detonator and explosive charge would have been needed to weaponize the pagers, which already have the other three components.

“It had to be done in such a way to make it invisible,” Moorhouse said, adding that one way to do that is by modifying the battery itself – implanting an electronic detonator and small explosive charge inside of its metal casing, making it impossible to detect.

This is consistent with the initial assessments by Lebanese authorities, who said in a letter sent to the UN Security Council that a preliminary investigation found that the communications devices were implanted with explosives before arriving in the country – tampered with “in a professional way” by “foreign entities.”

Check out Violence.News to read more stories about Israel’s acts of terrorism toward Middle Eastern nations.

Watch the video below where former U.S. Marine Corps intelligence officer Scott Ritter labeled the recent Israeli pagers explosion attack on Lebanon an “act of terrorism.”

This video is from Cynthia’s Pursuit of Truth channel on Brighteon.com.