The Cement That Bought Silence: How Lafarge Paid ISIS for Passage
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The Cement That Bought Silence: How Lafarge Paid ISIS for Passage
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Fear that profit can outlast conscience: a global cement giant paid armed groups, including ISIS, with monthly transfers that U.S. prosecutors say totaled $5.92 million and French investigators say reached €13 million - so how did executives justify mailing checks while fighters stamped transit papers? What choices led a company founded in 1833 to keep a Syrian plant running through ISIS checkpoints?
In this episode, we tell how Lafarge negotiated with militia leaders in a Turkish border city in autumn 2012 to secure safe passage for trucks, how recurring payments continued through 2014, and how courts in the United States and France concluded the company knew exactly whom it was paying - a finding that raised the question of corporate responsibility in wartime.
Person: Lafarge representatives and armed militia leaders
Date: autumn 2012 to 2014
Location: Jalabiya region, northeastern Syria and Gaziantep, Turkey
Event: Monthly payments for safe passage and ISIS-issued transit documents
Country: France (company origin) and United States (prosecutorial review)
- Founded in 1833, Lafarge operated in more than 70 countries by the early 2000s.
- U.S. federal prosecutors reported $5.92 million paid directly to terrorist group leaders.
- French investigators estimated payments up to €13 million (roughly $17.5 million) across 2012-2014.
- Meeting minutes and emails documented "precise knowledge" that Lafarge knew it was dealing with ISIS and al-Nusra.
- Lafarge drivers carried laminated ISIS-issued authorizations to pass militia checkpoints in northeastern Syria.
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