French firm charged in US with Islamic State group payments
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French cement company Lafarge pled guilty Tuesday to paying ISIS $17 million to keep a plant open in Syria, with charges announced by federal prosecutors in New York City.
Prosecutors accused the company of turning a blind eye to the conduct of the militant group, paying to it at a time when it was involved in torturing kidnapped Westerners.
"The defendants routed nearly six million dollars in illicit payments to two of the world’s most notorious terrorist organizations — ISIS and al-Nusrah Front in Syria — at a time those groups were brutalizing innocent civilians in Syria and actively plotting to harm Americans," Assistant Attorney General Matthew Olsen, the Justice Department’s top national security official, said in a statement.
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