Bulgaria’s bTV announced that 1.6 million euros linked to the deadly pager explosions in Lebanon passed through Bulgaria and were transferred to Hungary.
TV refers to sources in the state agency for national security, Israeli media reports the agency’s reports.
The Bulgarian authorities announced that the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the State Security Service have launched an investigation into possible links to that transaction by an unnamed company.
Local media reported that Sofia-based Norta Global Ltd facilitated the sale of pagers to Lebanon’s Hezbollah.
On Wednesday, 25 people were killed and more than 600 injured in pager explosions.
A day earlier, 12 were killed and more than 2,800 people were wounded in explosions of cell phones belonging to Hezbollah members in places considered to be strongholds of the pro-Iranian Shiite Hezbollah, Beta writes.
