French Cement Company Fined $777M And Pleads Guilty To Paying ISIS As Terror Group Killed Westerners - Breaking911

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : LCS executives purchased raw materials needed to manufacture cement from ISIS-controlled suppliers; paid monthly "donations" to armed groups, including ISIS and ANF, so that employees, customers and suppliers could traverse checkpoints controlled by the armed groups on roads around the Jalabiyeh Cement Plant; and eventually agreed to make payments to ISIS based on the volume of cement that LCS sold to its customers, which Lafarge and LCS executives likened to paying "taxes."
50% : LCS executives made clear to the intermediaries negotiating with ISIS that, in exchange for LCS paying ISIS 750 Syrian Pounds per each ton of cement that it sold, they expected ISIS to take action against its competitors, either by stopping the sale of competing imported Turkish cement in the areas under ISIS's control, or by imposing taxes on competing cement that would allow LCS to raise the prices at which it sold cement.

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