{O/C} French cement firm Lafarge has pleaded guilty to illicitly paying nearly 6 million U.S. dollars to the Islamic State group in 2013 and 2014 to keep a plant in Syria operational in a Brooklyn courtroom.
The U.S. Justice Department accused the company of ignoring the Islamic State's ruthless tactics of torturing abducted Westerners and gruesome civil war.
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LISA MONACO, Deputy Attorney General of the United States:
In the summer of 2014, the world watched in horror as ISIS murdered innocent journalists and aid workers.
That same summer, Lafarge was in business with ISIS securing profits and market share and capitalising on the group's brutality.
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BREON PEACE, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York:
These are the first companies ever charged by the Justice Department with providing material support to foreign terrorist organisations.
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