A spokesman for Turkey’s ruling Justice and Growth Celebration (AKP), Omer Celik, yesterday described the French cement firm Lafarge’s help for Daesh as a “crime in opposition to humanity”.
Talking at a press convention attended by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Celik stated Lafarge has supported Daesh within the Syrian conflict with the French intelligence’s data.
He defined that the French Supreme Courtroom has paved the best way for the corporate to be sued, and to look at allegations if the French inside, exterior and army intelligence had been knowledgeable of Lafarge’s relationship with Daesh.
Final week, Lafarge was accused of paying tens of millions of {dollars} through a Syrian subsidiary and a intermediary to militants, together with the Daesh, to keep its cement factory in Jalabiya, northern Syria, throughout the early years of the Syrian civil war.
READ: Ex-boss of French firm charged with financing Daesh
The corporate has additionally been charged with financing terrorism and violating a EU embargo overpayments made to the Syrian subsidiary in 2013 and 2014.
Lafarge, which is now a part of Swiss-listed Holcim, has admitted following its personal inside investigation that its Syrian subsidiary paid armed teams to maintain operations working after 2011 within the war-torn nation. However it has rejected a number of fees in opposition to it in an investigation by French magistrates.
English
Arabic
Chinese (Simplified)
Dutch
French
German
Italian
Portuguese
Russian
Spanish