The carmaker Fiat Chrysler comes the affair of exhaust manipulation in the United States to be expensive again. The company was sentenced on Monday (local time) in a federal court in Detroit to a fine of around 300 million dollars (around 290 million euros) for fraud with emission data.
Which has now become an international car company Stellantis affiliated manufacturer pleaded guilty in June and agreed to a settlement with the US Department of Justice. The amount was covered by provisions, Fiat Chrysler announced at the time. The agreement has now been approved by the court.
US authorities had accused the carmaker of having made false statements about the emissions of a good 100,000 diesel vehicles. In 2017, the Justice Department filed charges. The company rejected the allegations and any parallels to the “Dieselgate” scandal Volkswagen initially persistently back.
But as early as 2019, Fiat paid Chrysler hundreds of millions of dollars in US civil lawsuits. The settlement that has now been reached is intended to settle the criminal proceedings. In addition to the fine, the court also imposed a three-year probationary period on the company.