{"id":342,"date":"2023-06-26T07:09:09","date_gmt":"2023-06-26T11:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/?p=342"},"modified":"2024-02-13T09:45:39","modified_gmt":"2024-02-13T13:45:39","slug":"france-sanctions-charges-against-lafarge-holcim-dropped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2023\/06\/26\/france-sanctions-charges-against-lafarge-holcim-dropped\/","title":{"rendered":"France &#8211; some charges against Lafarge-Holcim dropped"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Further to our earlier posts (<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2017\/06\/13\/france-investigation-commenced-into-allegations-of-terrorist-financing\/\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2017\/12\/08\/france-eight-individuals-charged-in-lafarge-holcim-investigation\/\">here<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2018\/06\/28\/france-lafarge-holcim-charges-brought\/\">here<\/a>) regarding an investigation into whether cement company Lafarge-Holcim breached EU sanctions by making payments to designated persons, it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.business-humanrights.org\/en\/latest-news\/france-judges-close-the-investigation-into-lafarges-activities-relating-to-the-financing-of-terrorism-charge\/\">has been announced<\/a> that the charges relating to financing of terrorism breaches are being discontinued.<\/p>\n<p>The charges relating to crimes against humanity continue.<\/p>\n<p>In October 2022 Lafarge-Holcim had plead guilty to related charges before the US Department of Justice and agreed to pay $778 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Further to our earlier posts (here, here, and here) regarding an investigation into whether cement company Lafarge-Holcim breached EU sanctions by making payments to designated persons, it has been announced that the charges relating to financing of terrorism breaches are being discontinued. The charges relating to crimes against humanity continue. In October 2022 Lafarge-Holcim had &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/2023\/06\/26\/france-sanctions-charges-against-lafarge-holcim-dropped\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;France &#8211; some charges against Lafarge-Holcim dropped&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":656,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,70],"tags":[20,48,24],"ppma_author":[7],"class_list":["post-342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-78","category-infrastructure-and-transport","tag-financial-sanctions","tag-france","tag-syria"],"authors":[{"term_id":7,"user_id":656,"is_guest":0,"slug":"mhandley","display_name":"Mark Handley","avatar_url":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/65\/2023\/09\/handleymark-100x100.jpg","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/656"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.duanemorris.com\/europeansanctionsenforcement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}