The Hungarian news site Telex quickly introduced a new, more exciting and complex dimension to this case. Anonymous sources reportedly said that a company registered in the Bulgarian capital, Sofia, in the name of a Norwegian citizen, had imported pagers intended for communications outside the approved network systems and arranged for their delivery to Hezbollah.
How did Hungary’s implicit accusation that Bulgaria was responsible for supplying pager bombs unfold? What is the nature of the threads revealed by local media on this issue with security and political dimensions closely linked to the open war between Hezbollah and Israeli military and security institutions, particularly the Mossad?
In contrast to the indifference shown by Borissov, the leader of the largest parliamentary bloc, to the issue of the war in Gaza and its consequences, the government’s national security (intelligence) agency reacted within hours of the Hungarian allusions to a possible Bulgarian role in the pager bomb issue. It quickly published an official statement on its website saying that the agency “After its investigations, in cooperation with the Tax Agency, the Ministry of Interior and the Customs Agency, it has concluded beyond reasonable doubt that the communication devices responsible for the September 17 explosions in Lebanon and Syria were not imported, exported or produced in Bulgaria.”
Norta Global
However, media coverage of the case quickly revealed the presence of a Bulgarian link in the supply chains responsible for delivering the bomb-laden pagers. After information received from Budapest transferred responsibility for the transfer of the pager devices to Norta Global, registered in Sofia since March 2022 under the name of a Norwegian of Indian origin named Renson Yossi, it turned out that this company was registered with a capital of no more than 200 leva ($110), and that it only has a postal address on Vitosha Street in the capital, and the one who registered it before March 2022 was not its Norwegian owner, Yossi, but rather a lawyer for the Norta company named Atans Velikov Atnasov. It was also found that the address of the apartment indicated on the permit included 196 similar shell companies.
