Norway issued a missing persons notice for one of its citizens, who is reportedly the co-owner of a Bulgarian company that may have been involved in distributing a consignment of pagers that exploded last week in Lebanon after being purchased by the Tehran-backed Hezbollah militia.
Rinson Jose, a 39-year-old Indian-Norwegian, apparently disappeared Wednesday while he was traveling on a work-related trip to Boston.
The CEO of his employer, Oslo’s DN Group, told The Associated Press in an email that colleagues of Jose “tried to contact our employee without success since we first heard the serious allegations about his alleged private activity, which we did not know about and has nothing to do with us as a company.”
Public business records have revealed that in 2022, Jose co-founded the Sofia-based Norta Global Ltd. The firm is being investigated along with Budapest’s BAC Consulting to determine if they played any roles in the incursion that killed at least 30 Hezbollah associates and injured more than 2,800.
The September 17 blasts are widely believed to have been orchestrated by members of Israel’s intelligence agencies.
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