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Company: Lafarge S.A.
Current Parent Company: Holcim Group
Penalty: $777,780,000
Year: 2022
Date: October 18, 2022
Offense Group: miscellaneous offenses
Primary Offense: payment to designated terrorist organization
Mega-Scandal: Sanctions Violations
Violation Description: Lafarge S.A., a global building materials manufacturer, and Lafarge Cement Syria, a Lafarge subsidiary headquartered in Syria, pleaded guilty to a one-count criminal information charging them with conspiring to provide material support and resources to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) and the al-Nusrah Front, both U.S.-designated foreign terrorist organizations. Immediately following the defendants' guilty pleas, United States District Judge William F. Kuntz, II sentenced the defendants to terms of probation and to pay financial penalties, including criminal fines of $90.78 million and forfeiture of $687 million, totaling $777.78 million.
Level of Government: federal
Action Type: agency action
Agency: U.S. Attorney-Western District of Oklahoma
Civil or Criminal Case: criminal
HQ Country of Current Parent: Switzerland
Ownership Structure of Current Parent: publicly traded
Major Industry of Current Parent: building materials
Specific Industry of Current Parent: building materials
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