A French company, specialized in making concrete, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to making payments in millions of dollars to the Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems....
(ISIS) in order to keep a cement plant operating in Syria.
LaFarge SA agreed to pay $778 million in fines and forfeiture to resolve a US federal criminal charge related to the French company’s payments, which took place from August 2013 to October 2014, to ISIS and al-Nusra
...formally Jabhat an-Nusrah li-Ahli al-Sham (Support Front for the People of the Levant), also known as al-Qaeda in the Levant. They aim to establish a pan-Arab caliphate. Not the same one as the Islamic State, though .. ...
Front (now Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, formerly al-Nusra, before that it was called something else
 ...al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, from which sprang the Islamic State...
, HTS) in Syria.
"We deeply regret that this conduct occurred and have worked with the U.S. Department of Justice to resolve this matter," LaFarge said in a statement.
US prosecutors said that Lafarge paid the two terrorist groups, through intermediaries, the equivalent of approximately $5.92 million.
The French company, which became part of the multinational Swiss-listed company Holcim in 2015, said that people responsible for this have been separated from the company since 2017.
LaFarge became the first company pleading guilty in the US on charges of providing material support to a terrorist organization. "Never before has a corporation been charged with providing material support and resources to foreign terrorist organizations," said US Attorney Breon Peace in a statement. 
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