Former LafargeHolcim CEO Eric Olsen was charged with funding terrorist groups as part of a French probe into the cement maker’s operations in war-torn Syria, Bloomberg reports. Olsen, who resigned from the company in April, was also charged late Thursday with putting someone else’s life in danger and placed under judicial supervision, said an official at the Paris prosecutor’s office who declined to be named in line with policy. The case revolves around payments made to armed groups to keep a cement plant in Syria operating by Lafarge prior to its merger with Holcim.

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