French court jails Lafarge former CEO for funding IS in Syria
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“A French court on Monday fined the cement group Lafarge over $1.3 million”
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Multiple independent sources confirm the fine. The Guardian reports a fine of more than €1m, Fincrime Central specifies 1.125 million euros, and another web result explicitly mentions 'over $1.3 million'.
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— Lafarge is a French industrial company specialising in cement, construction aggregates, and concrete. It is the world's largest cement manufacturer. It was founded in 1833 by Joseph-Auguste Pavin de L…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lafarge_(company)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lafarge_(company)
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— The Lafarge scandal refers to the court case against Lafarge, a French cement company, for making payments to the armed militant groups Islamic State of Iraq and Levant and al-Nusra Front between 2013…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lafarge_scandal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lafarge_scandal
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— Marie-Fortunée Lafarge (née Capelle; 15 January 1816 – 7 November 1852) was a French woman who was convicted of murdering her husband by arsenic poisoning in 1840. Her case became notable because it w…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Lafarge
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Lafarge
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“sentenced its former boss to six years in prison”
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Three independent news sources (The Guardian, Fincrime Central, and Al Jazeera) explicitly state that the former CEO (identified as Bruno Lafont) was sentenced to six years in prison.
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— Henri Poupart-Lafarge (born 10 April 1969) is a French business executive and the current CEO of Alstom, a post which he has occupied since February 2016.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Poupart-Lafarge
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Poupart-Lafarge
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— Lafarge is a French industrial company specialising in cement, construction aggregates, and concrete. It is the world's largest cement manufacturer. It was founded in 1833 by Joseph-Auguste Pavin de L…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lafarge_(company)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lafarge_(company)
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— The Lafarge scandal refers to the court case against Lafarge, a French cement company, for making payments to the armed militant groups Islamic State of Iraq and Levant and al-Nusra Front between 2013…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lafarge_scandal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lafarge_scandal
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“paying protection money to the Islamic State group and other jihadists to maintain its business in war-torn Syria”
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The claim is confirmed by both multiple news sources and Wikipedia. Wikipedia's 'Lafarge scandal' entry specifically references payments to the Islamic State of Iraq and Levant and al-Nusra Front between 2013-2014 to maintain operations.
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— On 22 September 2014, the United States officially intervened in the Syrian civil war with the stated aim of fighting the Islamic State (ISIL/ISIS) militant organization in support of the internationa…
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— The Islamic State (IS), also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), and by its Arabic acronym Daesh, is a transnational Salafi jihadist m…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_State
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_State
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— The Lafarge scandal refers to the court case against Lafarge, a French cement company, for making payments to the armed militant groups Islamic State of Iraq and Levant and al-Nusra Front between 2013…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lafarge_scandal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lafarge_scandal
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