French cement giant Lafarge guilty of financing ISIL in Syria
Cement company Lafarge and eight of its ex-employees were found guilty of financing ISIL in a French court.
French cement giant Lafarge guilty of financing ISIL in Syria
Cement company Lafarge and eight of its ex-employees were found guilty of financing ISIL in a French court. Grouped from 3 articles across 2 sources.
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French court rules cement giant Lafarge guilty of funding Syria ‘terrorism’
Long-running case regarding Lafarte's actions amid Syrian civil war sees company ordered to pay fine, executives jailed.
French cement maker Holcim's Lafarge unit found guilty of financing jihadists in Syria
A Paris court on Monday found cement maker Holcim's Lafarge unit guilty of charges that its Syrian subsidiary financed terrorism and breached European sanctions. Eight former employees were found guilty and some of them were sentenced to jail time, in the verdict for the first case in France against a company for financing terrorism.
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