In a press release, Mr. Lafont also accused Holcim, Lafarge's parent company, of having conducted an "exclusively incriminating" investigation against him.
On Tuesday, Lafarge, swallowed up by the Swiss group Holcim in 2015, announced that it had agreed to pay a financial penalty of 778 million dollars to the United States and to plead guilty to having helped "terrorist" organizations, including the EI group, between 2013 and 2014.
In reaction to this agreement concluded "to everyone's surprise", Bruno Lafont, ex-CEO until 2015 of Lafarge, recalled that he disputed "firmly having ever been informed of any payments for the benefit of terrorist groups or supplies with such groups.
"It appears through the testimonies and revelations of the protagonists of this case, that the so-called investigation carried out by Holcim is entirely and exclusively against Bruno Lafont and the former leaders of the Lafarge group and that Holcim has systematically opposed in search of the truth," the statement said.
"This questions the nature of the facts and responsibilities recognized by Lafarge in the United States, under the leadership of Holcim," adds the former CEO.
Bruno Lafont, indicted for financing terrorism in the context of the judicial investigation opened since 2017 in Paris, wishes to be heard again by the investigating judges to "discuss certain recent elements", "request the declassification of certain documents" and "the hearing of certain people likely to bring new elements to the file".
The Lafarge group is for its part indicted for complicity in crimes against humanity.
He is suspected of having paid, in 2013 and 2014, through his Syrian subsidiary Lafarge Cement Syria (LCS), several million euros to terrorist groups, including the Islamic State group, and to intermediaries in order to maintain the activity. of a cement plant in Syria in Jalabiya as the country descended into war.
The French investigation evaluated these payments between 4,8 and 10 million euros for the EI group alone.