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    Lafarge admits paying IS to run Syrian plant

    The company also agreed to penalties totaling roughly $778 million.

    Lafarge admits paying IS to run Syrian plant
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    NEW YORK: French cement company Lafarge pleaded guilty Tuesday to paying millions of dollars to the Islamic State group in exchange for permission to keep open a plant in Syria, a case the Justice Department described as the first of its kind. The company also agreed to penalties totaling roughly $778 million. Prosecutors accused Lafarge of turning a blind eye to the conduct of the militant group, making payments to it in 2013 and 2014 as it occupied a broad swath of Syria.

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