Topic
Sanctions
10 assessed claims about sanctions involving 7 organizations. The labels compare each claim with the record. They do not rate the organizations.
- Supported2
- Partly supported3
- Contradicted1
- Outdated1
- Unresolved3
- Unresolved58Plaintiffs in US Anti-Terrorism Act suits allege that MTN paid protection money to the Taliban for the security of its towers in Afghanistan.
- Supported73A Paris court convicted Lafarge of financing terrorist organisations on 13 April 2026 and fined it more than EUR 1 million.
- Unresolved53The August 2024 Hindenburg report said in its title that it found evidence of sanctions evasion at Super Micro.
- Partly supported66VEON said in September 2023 that it had not been targeted by US, EU or UK sanctions at any point since February 2022.
- Outdated69Swedbank said in June 2023 that investigations by the US Justice Department and the SEC into the bank were ongoing.
- Supported93Lafarge SA and Lafarge Cement Syria pleaded guilty in October 2022 in the United States to conspiring to provide material support to ISIS and al-Nusrah Front.
- Partly supported81Holcim said in October 2022 that none of the Syrian conduct involved Holcim, that former Lafarge executives concealed it, and that Holcim investigated proactively and voluntarily.
- Partly supported88A Reuters report in March 2022 said ZTE pleaded guilty in 2017 to illegally shipping US technology to Iran and North Korea.
- Unresolved58Ericsson said in February 2022 that its Iraq investigation could not identify that any Ericsson employee was directly involved in financing terrorist organizations.
- Contradicted86ZTE told the US government it had disciplined the employees responsible for its earlier export violations.