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Swiss-owned Lafarge faces fresh lawsuit over Syria IS bribes (www.swissinfo.ch)
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French cement manufacturer Lafarge, which now belongs to Swiss company Holcim, has again been summoned to court over its actions in Syria.

The lawsuit against Lafarge was filed in a federal court in New York by a group called Yazidi Americans, as reported by the Reuters news agency.

Lafarge was previously accused of having paid bribes to the terrorist organisation Islamic State (IS) in 2013 and 2014 to maintain production at its cement factory in Syria. The French cement manufacturer was taken over in 2015 by its Swiss competitor Holcim. ...

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