Private Investigator and handwriting expert, Thomas Mathiesen, has analyzed signatures on contracts related to the sales of pagers to Hezbollah.

On September 17th 2024, pagers carried by Hezbollah members in Lebanon started exploding. This incident killed 42 people and wounded more than 3000 people. The pagers were traced to a company in Taiwan, a company in Bulgaria and a Norwegian citizen.

The Norwegian citizen (originating from India), Rinson Jose, was involved in selling the pagers to Hezbollah.

Norwegian police are looking for the pager blast suspect internationally. He went off the radar days after the attack and has not been seen since. Jose was on a business trip to the Unites States when the pagers exploded. His employer has also not heard from him since.

Rinson was born in 1985 and is currently registered as living in Oslo, the capital of Norway.

Handwriting expert analyze Rinson Jose’s signature

World Association of Detectives member and CEO of Etterforsker1 Gruppen, Thomas Mathiesen, is a handwriting expert and was asked to analyze Rinson Jose’s signature found on a suspicious document related to the sales of the pagers.

This document is stamped with Rinson Jose’s company name but his personal signature differs from others that are known to have been signed by him.

Mathiesen’s report concludes that the suspicious signature is most likely false and in fact not signed by Rinson Jose. The private investigator does not want to speculate why the signature is most likely written by someone else.

Who is Rinson Jose?

Rinson also owns a company in Bulgaria called Norta Gloabal, which was registered in 2022.

The suspect has roots from Kerala in India and provided IT services in Norway as a young adult. He left to Boston (US) just days before the pager attack and then disappeared.

About the author

Private investigator and handwriting expert Thomas Mathiesen. Mathiesen is the CEO of the Norwegian private investigation agency, Etterforsker1 Gruppen AS, and board member of World Association of Detectives. Mathiesen’s background is from IT security. Mathiesen helps clients within investigation, child custody cases and handwriting forensics.
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