The charge stems from cement company Lafarge’s payments to foreign terrorist organizations in exchange for permission to operate in Syria between 2013 and 2014.
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French cement giant Lafarge SA will pay a $778 million fine after pleading guilty to providing material support to Daesh and other terror groups during the..
French cement giant Lafarge pleads guilty to supporting Islamic State in Syria, will pay $778 million fine
Lafarge acknowledged it paid millions of euros to middlemen to keep its Syrian cement factory running in 2013 and 2014, long after other firms had pulled out of the country — in what the US Justice D …
French cement giant Lafarge pleads guilty to supporting Islamic State in Syria, will pay $778 million fine
Lafarge acknowledged it paid millions of euros to middlemen to keep its Syrian cement factory running in 2013 and 2014, long after other firms had pulled out of the country — in what the US Justice D …