By Maya Lester KC & Michael O’Kane

Cement company Lafarge SA formally placed under French investigation over subsidiary’s Syrian payments

Yesterday, Franco-Swiss cement company LafargeHolcim announced that the examining magistrates in Paris have placed the company’s French component, Lafarge SA, under investigation in relation to payments allegedly made between 2011 and 2014 to sanctioned militant groups, including ISIS, to ensure that its Jalabiya cement plant in Syria continued to operate (the plant had been operated by Lafarge Cement Syria, a...

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Michael is Senior Partner at Peters & Peters Solicitors LLP. He has acted in many of the most high profile and sensitive business crime cases of the last 25 years, at Peters &...

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