{"id":66651,"date":"2026-04-14T11:03:53","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T11:03:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/66651\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T11:03:53","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T11:03:53","slug":"ex-lafarge-ceo-jailed-six-years-for-syria-terrorist-payments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/66651\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Lafarge CEO Jailed Six-Years for Syria Terrorist Payments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/LG:FP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Lafarge<\/a>\u2019s former chief executive was jailed for six years and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/quote\/HOLN:SW\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">Holcim Ltd.<\/a> subsidiary was fined nearly \u20ac5.7 million ($6.7 million) after being found guilty of paying terrorist groups to avoid shutting a plant during Syria\u2019s civil war.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">A Paris court on Monday convicted the cement maker and its former CEO Bruno Lafont for violating European sanctions and terrorism financing. Lafont was taken away by police officers and must start serving his prison term immediately. His lawyer said he\u2019s appealing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lafarge\u2019s former chief executive was jailed for six years and the Holcim Ltd. subsidiary was fined nearly \u20ac5.7&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66652,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[24297,25011,25013,7440,54,25012,207,11166,95,14411,36],"class_list":{"0":"post-66651","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-syria","8":"tag-bruno-lafont","9":"tag-chief-executive-officer","10":"tag-christian-herrault","11":"tag-economic-sanctions","12":"tag-europe","13":"tag-lafarge-africa-plc","14":"tag-markets","15":"tag-paris","16":"tag-syria","17":"tag-terror","18":"tag-war"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116402733923276865","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}