The president and founder of a Taiwanese pager company linked to the detonation of thousands of pagers targeting Hezbollah in Lebanon was questioned by prosecutors late into the night yesterday and then released, Reuters reports.

Taiwan-based Gold Apollo’s president and founder Hsu Ching-kuang has said it did not manufacture the devices used in the attack, and that they were made by a Budapest-based company BAC which has a licence to use its brand.

Images of destroyed pagers analysed by Reuters showed a format and stickers on the back that were consistent with pagers made by Gold Apollo.

Hsu declined to answer reporters’ questions as he left one of the Taipei offices of Taiwan prosecutors. Calls to the prosecutor’s office before office hours were not answered. Taipei prosecutors have not issued any statements so far about their investigations into Gold Apollo.