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France/Syria: The Court of Cassation, a court of last resort, is considering whether a charge of crimes against humanity should be upheld against Lafarge. However, charges of financing terrorism, endangering life and violating an embargo seem set to stay. The legal case is investigating the company's conduct in Syria between 2011 and 2014.
France's highest court on Tuesday rejected a request from French cement maker Lafarge that it dismiss charges of complicity in crimes against humanity as part of an enquiry into how the group kept ...
TORONTO — Lafarge Canada announces the completion of another important milestone in the company's commitment to drive sustainability – the full transition of production from traditional ...
France/Syria: The French Court of Cassation will deliver its decision on the appeal filed in May 2022 by Lafarge, now part of Holcim, in the case relating to its activities in Syria in the 2010s, on 16 January 2024. The body will rule on the indictments of Lafarge for complicity in crimes against humanity and endangering the lives of its employees in Syria, which were …
Lafarge, a subsidiary of the Switzerland-based Holcim Group with extensive operations in the United States, entered a guilty plea Tuesday in federal court in Brooklyn to a count of conspiring to ...
Lafarge Africa Plc is a member of the Holcim Group - the global leader in innovative and sustainable building solutions. It was incorporated on 24th February, 1959 and listed as a publicly quoted company on the Nigerian Exchange on 17th February, 1979.
French cement giant Lafarge SA was slapped with a $778 million fine Tuesday for making millions in payments to the Islamic State and another jihadist group to build its business in Syria.
France: Climate protest group Earth Uprising says that it will target sites belonging to Holcim subsidiary Lafarge France for demonstrations as part of planned actions between 9 and 12 December 2023. Ouest France News has reported that the demonstrations will include a 'festive but determined' gathering at Lafarge France's Saint-Barthélemy-d'Anjou concrete …
Relations of a U.S. aid worker and American soldiers - all killed or injured by Islamic State and Al-Nusra Front - have lodged a legal claim against cement maker Lafarge over payments the French ...
Lafarge, now part of the Swiss building materials conglomerate Holcim, has acknowledged that it paid nearly 13 million euros ($13.7) to middlemen to keep its Syrian cement factory running in 2013 and 2014, long after other French firms had pulled out of the country.. The company contends that it had no responsiblity for the money winding up in the hands of …
Lafarge is the first company, as a legal entity, in the world to ever face such a charge. " The Supreme Court confirms for the second time that Lafarge can be charged in France with complicity in crimes against humanity …
U.S. prosecutors said Lafarge and its Syrian subsidiary Lafarge Cement Syria paid Islamic State and al Nusra Front, through intermediaries, the equivalent of approximately $5.92 million between ...
France's top court on Tuesday overturned a decision by a lower court to dismiss charges brought against cement giant Lafarge for complicity in crimes against humanity in …
filed a criminal complaint in Paris against the French company Lafarge concerning illegal activities by its subsidiary in Syria in 2013-14. The complaint names as defendants the group Lafarge itself, its CEO at the time of the facts, Bruno Lafont, the Syrian subsidiary Lafarge Cement Syria, along with its CEO
Lafarge SA and its defunct subsidiary Lafarge Cement Syria has "agreed to plead guilty to one count of conspiring to provide material support to designated foreign terrorist organizations in Syria ...
Beginning on the night of 2 - 3 August 2014, ISIS displaced the entire Yazidi population from its homeland, amid a campaign of abductions and killings that claimed 12,000 victims. 1 A striking detail of this and other crimes of the self-proclaimed caliphate is the proximity of a Western corporate actor: cement producer Lafarge, whose subsidiary ...
Defendant LAFARGE CEMENT SYRIA S.A. ("LCS") was an indirect subsidiary of LAFARGE organized under the laws of Syria and headquartered in Damascus, Syria. ... do their jobs and purchase the cement that LCS had produced. 16. LCS engaged in this conduct at the direction of LAFARGE's and LCS's senior management, including Executive 1 ...
France's highest court on Tuesday rejected a request by French cement maker Lafarge to dismiss charges of complicity in crimes against humanity as part of an investigation over how it kept its ...
Lafarge began operating a 680 million euro ($670 million) cement plant in the Jalabiyeh region of Northern Syria in 2010, the year IS swept the region with a brutal campaign to establish its ...
French prosecutors have recommended that cement manufacturer Lafarge should face trial for allegations of financing terrorism due to its previous activities in Syria. Lafarge in Syria: French Supreme Court issues decisive ruling on charges faced by the multinational Date: 16 Jan 2024 Content Type: Article
France asked the United States in 2014 not to bomb a Lafarge cement plant in northern Syria, an area which was at the time controlled by Islamic State, emails that are part of an investigation ...
Lafarge is a France-based company that manufactures cement and other materials in more than 60 countries worldwide. From 2010 to 2014, Lafarge subsidiary Lafarge Cement Syria (LCS) operated a cement plant in Jalabiyeh, in the northern part of Syria near the Turkish border. According to the DOJ, the plant cost approximately $680 million to build.
Lafarge, a French company created in 1833, is the global leader in construction material and one of the major actors in cement, aggregates and concrete production. Lafarge's headquarters …
Lafarge has acknowledged that it paid nearly €13 million (S$19 million) to middlemen to keep its Syrian cement factory running in 2013 and 2014, long after other French firms had pulled out of ...
A major international cement company will has pleaded guilty in Brooklyn Federal Court to giving financial support to ISIS, will forfeit $687 million and pay the U.S. government nearly $91 million ...
Lafarge began producing cement for the Syrian market in 2010 after investing more than 600 million euros, or $708 million at current exchange rates, to refurbish a factory in Jalabiyeh, a town ...
After a three-year renovation of the €680 million plant, Lafarge Cement Syria opened in October 2010, employing hundreds of people and generating thousands of related jobs.
France's top court has overturned a decision by a lower court to dismiss charges brought against cement giant Lafarge for complicity in crimes against humanity in Syria's civil war.
PARIS (Reuters) -France's highest court on Tuesday rejected a request from French cement maker Lafarge that it dismiss charges of complicity in crimes against humanity as part of an enquiry into ...
PARIS (Reuters) -France's highest court on Tuesday rejected a request from French cement maker Lafarge that it dismiss charges of complicity in crimes against humanity as part of an enquiry into ...