>Lafarge SA is pleading guilty and has agreed to pay a fine of $777.8 million to resolve a criminal charge related to the French company’s payments to the terror organization ISIS to keep a plant operating in Syria. The more than $10 million payments to ISIS were made from 2012 through 2014, and occurred even as the terror group was kidnapping and killing Westerners.
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>“Lafarge has admitted and taken responsibility for its staggering crime,” said U.S. Attorney Breon Peace in a statement. “Never before has a corporation been charged with providing material support and resources to foreign terrorist organizations.”
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>Peace’s office said Lafarge Cement Syria executives bought materials needed for their cement plant in the Jalabiyeh region of northern Syria from ISIS-controlled suppliers, and paid monthly “donations” to ISIS and ANF, so that employees, customers and suppliers could cross checkpoints around the plant.
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>The investigation that led to Lafarge being indicted in U.S. District Court in New York is ongoing. No individuals have been charged. Lafarge was purchased by Switzerland-based Holcim in 2015.
**Questions:** Should there be more investigating to identify whether/when companies have made payments to terror groups outright? (ex: Afghanistan, Haiti, Boko Haram, etc.)…
Should “individual” businesspersons be charged?
If so, how (ex: should it be up to individual national governments, or should international groups be involved)? ….And what should be done about the bankers who did the financing (who do not appear to even be mentioned in this article)?
The usual tax to our master the USA.
I wonder if China will be able to have this kind of exterritoritorial jurisdiction over their bitches (Africa and other poor/middle countries) in the future.
Simply surrendering isn’t good enough, the French will now pay people who attack them
Delightful news.
Always French companies involved in this kind of stuff. Same with mostly French companies refusing to exit Russia.
Corporations are like sharks all they wanna do is eat, and then eat some more.
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>Lafarge SA is pleading guilty and has agreed to pay a fine of $777.8 million to resolve a criminal charge related to the French company’s payments to the terror organization ISIS to keep a plant operating in Syria. The more than $10 million payments to ISIS were made from 2012 through 2014, and occurred even as the terror group was kidnapping and killing Westerners.
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>“Lafarge has admitted and taken responsibility for its staggering crime,” said U.S. Attorney Breon Peace in a statement. “Never before has a corporation been charged with providing material support and resources to foreign terrorist organizations.”
>
>Peace’s office said Lafarge Cement Syria executives bought materials needed for their cement plant in the Jalabiyeh region of northern Syria from ISIS-controlled suppliers, and paid monthly “donations” to ISIS and ANF, so that employees, customers and suppliers could cross checkpoints around the plant.
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>The investigation that led to Lafarge being indicted in U.S. District Court in New York is ongoing. No individuals have been charged. Lafarge was purchased by Switzerland-based Holcim in 2015.
**Questions:** Should there be more investigating to identify whether/when companies have made payments to terror groups outright? (ex: Afghanistan, Haiti, Boko Haram, etc.)…
Should “individual” businesspersons be charged?
If so, how (ex: should it be up to individual national governments, or should international groups be involved)? ….And what should be done about the bankers who did the financing (who do not appear to even be mentioned in this article)?
The usual tax to our master the USA.
I wonder if China will be able to have this kind of exterritoritorial jurisdiction over their bitches (Africa and other poor/middle countries) in the future.
Simply surrendering isn’t good enough, the French will now pay people who attack them
Delightful news.
Always French companies involved in this kind of stuff. Same with mostly French companies refusing to exit Russia.
Corporations are like sharks all they wanna do is eat, and then eat some more.
it is a swiss company for quite some time now .