Posted 05/08/2018 13: 03: 00CET
BERLIN, May 8 (Reuters / EP) –
The CEO of the Volkswagen Group, Herbert Diess, has traveled to the United States to testify before the authorities of the North American country for the case of the software installed in diesel vehicles and that detected the moment when the models were being subjected to laboratory tests .
Diess preceded Matthias Müller as head of the German automobile consortium last month and appeared before the US Department of Justice and the FBI, according to the German daily ‘Bild’.
The German newspaper also claims that the manager, who joined the company in July 2015, two months before the ‘dieselgate’ case will explode, was accompanied by Larry Thompson, appointed corporate supervisor of Volkswagen last year.
For its part, the company declined to comment, while a person close to the case confirmed that Diess and Thompson recently traveled to the United States to talk with the authorities in charge of the case.
The United States Department of Justice already filed a formal indictment last Friday against the former deputy director of the German automobile consortium Martin Winterkorn for “conspiracy and fraud” in relation to the ‘dieselgate’.
The US government indicated that the accusation against Winterkorn, who held the maximum responsibility of the company until September 2015, is linked to alleged fraud and conspiracy in relation to the “prolonged plan” of the German company to “cheat” the demands in emissions of diesel vehicles in the United States.