A single count brought by US prosecutors in Brooklyn indicted LaFarge SA and its now-dormant Syrian cement ally, both of which had conspired to provide money and material aid to ISIS.
"Guilty," Lafarge's chief executive, Magali Anderson, said in a plea allotment that from August 2013 to November 2014, Lafarge and Lafarge Cement Syria intentionally agreed to pay for and authorize payments for the benefit of armed groups in Syria. Happened.
The company admitted that it deliberately conspired to support Islamic State and the al-Nusra Front.
Lafarge agreed to pay $777 million in fines and forfeitures and three years' probation as part of his agreement with the government. He also agreed to cooperate fully in all ongoing investigations.