In revealing that the blasters used in the attack against Hezbollah members were made by a European distributor of the manufacturer Gold Apollo, the president of the Taiwanese company went ahead.

Gold Apollo founder and chairman Hsu Ching-kuang told reporters on Wednesday, according to CNN, that his company has signed a contract with a European distributor to use the Gold Apollo brand. The distributor, who he did not name, established a relationship with Gold Apollo about three years ago.

At first, Hsu said the European company only imported other Gold Apollo paging and communication products. Later, the company told Gold Apollo that they wanted to make their own buzzers and asked for the right to use the Taiwanese company’s brand name.

Hsu said Gold Apollo experienced at least one anomaly in its dealings with the distributor, citing a bank transfer that took too long to clear.

A senior Taiwanese security official told CNN that Gold Apollo has shipped about 260,000 buzzers from Taiwan, mostly to the United States and Australia. However, there is no record of the devices being sent to Lebanon or the Middle East, the source said.

Lebanon’s Hezbollah has announced retaliation, blaming Israel for yesterday’s simultaneous bomb blasts that killed at least nine people and wounded some 2,800, including the group’s fighters and Iran’s ambassador to Beirut.

Israel hid explosives inside a batch of buzzers ordered by Gold Apollo and intended for Hezbollah, according to the New York Times.

Several images from Lebanon shared on social media appear to show damaged Gold Apollo buzzers. At least one buzzer seen in the pictures was a Gold Apollo AR924 model.