Lafarge found guilty of supporting ISIS, fined $778 million
Lafarge, a French industrial company specialising in cement, concrete, construction businesses, has pleaded guilty to paying terrorists in order to ease the movement of its staff and goods within a war zone in Syria.
Court filings from the plea deal the Justice Department reached with Lafarge showed that it entered a revenue-sharing plan with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and the Al-Nusrah Front that made millions of dollars for the terrorist groups.
The Justice Department disclosed that ISIS took over the Lafarge plant when the company evacuated the cement plant in 2014, and the terror group sold the cement it had produced for roughly $3.2 million.
Cable News Network (CNN) reports that the cement company was consequently fined $778 million after pleading guilty at a United States court in Brooklyn of conspiring to provide material support to the jihadist group ISIS and another terrorist organization as part of a deal with the U.S. Justice Department.
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