On September 17, as a wave of pagers and then walkie-talkies went off across Lebanon, Yossi disappeared.
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Rinson Yossi, a 39-year-old IT guru from Norway, disappeared on the first day of the massive pager bombing in Lebanon. Yossi was listed as the owner of the Bulgarian company Norta Global, which is allegedly involved in supplying explosive devices to Hezbollah, writes The Daily Mail.
As part of a scheme to transfer pagers to Lebanon organised by the Israeli intelligence service Mossad, Norta Global paid $1.73 million to a Christiane Arcidiacono-Barsoni. She was listed as the owner of the Hungarian company BAC Consulting, which, according to documents, manufactured pagers under a Taiwanese licence.
Yossi is originally from India, was educated in Britain and worked at a marketing firm in London.
In 2015 he moved to Oslo, where he got a job at the Norwegian media group NHST. In 2016 he founded the company NortaLink (consulting, recruitment, IT services).
On September 17, when a wave of pagers and then walkie-talkies went off across Lebanon, Yossi disappeared. NHST executives were deaf and unable to contact him. They then asked for help from the Norwegian national intelligence service, from where they received information about Yossi’s involvement in terrorist attacks in Lebanon.
Oslo police have launched a preliminary investigation. Friends of the IT entrepreneur refuse to believe he is guilty and call Rinson “a man with a big heart.”
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