The trial against AudiManager for exhaust manipulation goes into the second round. The former CEO of the Ingolstadt car manufacturer, Rupert Stadler (60), and his two co-defendants have appealed the judgments of the Munich Regional Court, the court announced on Tuesday.
Reasons for Stadler’s revision were not initially known on Tuesday.
Former Audi engine chief and later PorscheBoard member Wolfgang Hatz (64) was sentenced to two years’ probation and a fine of 400,000 euros, the engineer Giovanni P. to a suspended sentence of one year and nine months and 50,000 euros.
The public prosecutor’s office also does not want to let the judgment against Hatz rest. She appealed against it. Unlike Stadler and P., she had resisted the fact that Hatz didn’t have to go to prison either.
Hatz, as head of Audi engine development for many years, had confessed to the manipulation of exhaust gas control in large diesel engines. He initiated the development of the software with which the nitrogen oxide limits were met on the test bench, but no longer on the road. This saves the carmaker the subsequent installation of larger Adblue tanks for exhaust gas cleaning. The prosecution had asked for a prison sentence of three years and two months for the 64-year-old. Hatz had been in custody in Stadelheim for nine months until June 2018.