French cement maker Lafarge has pleaded guilty to a US charge that it made payments to groups designated as “terrorists” by the United States, including ISIL (ISIS), according to a court hearing.The admission on Tuesday in Brooklyn federal court marked the first time a company has pleaded guilty in the US to charges of providing “material support to a designated foreign terrorist organization”.Lafarge, which became part of Swiss-listed Holcim in 2015, is also facing charges of complicity in crimes against humanity in Paris for keeping a factory running in Syria after a conflict broke out in 2011.
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