Lafarge to pay $778M for supporting terrorist groups ISIS, ANF in Syria
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Aaron Nicodemus2022-10-18T20:52:00
French multinational building products company Lafarge pleaded guilty to providing material support and resources to two U.S.-designated foreign terrorist groups in Syria, representing the Department of Justice’s (DOJ) first corporate material support for terrorism prosecution.
Lafarge and its defunct Syrian-based subsidiary, Lafarge Cement Syria (LCS), agreed Tuesday to pay nearly $778 million in fines and forfeiture to resolve a charge laid in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. Lafarge was accused of providing material support and resources from 2013-14 to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) and the al-Nusrah Front (ANF).
The money helped shield the Lafarge cement facility in northern Syria and its employees from being attacked or harassed by ISIS and ANF, which controlled the region during that period of the Syrian civil war.
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