VW boss Diess should have charged winter grain at FBI statement
VW-Boss Herbert Diess rejects the accusation that he has the former CEO Martin Winterkorn burdened in the diesel affair. According to Handelsblatt information, press reports according to which Diess testified to the US judiciary at the beginning of May do not.
Diess had not been formally questioned by US prosecutors on his recent trip to the US, nor had he met with the FBI, insiders told Handelsblatt. Diess’ defender Tido Park did not want to comment on request.
There has only been a conversation with VW overseer Larry Thompson, it continues in insider circles. Thompson is to VW on behalf of the US Justice on the finger, so that failures can not be repeated as in the diesel scandal. The so-called monitor monitors whether the Wolfsburg comply with the US authorities closed settlement and implement the promised reforms.
Exhaust scandal: US assure VW boss Diess free passage
Earlier, the “Bild” newspaper reported that Diess in the USA testified in investigators of the FBI and the Ministry of Justice in the exhaust gas scandal. He charged his predecessor Martin Winterkorn. At the moment he can not leave Germany because he is in the USA is accused of the diesel exhaust manipulation, VW declined to comment on the report.
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On Monday it became known that Herbert Diess gets free passage and can travel freely worldwidewithout fear of being arrested in connection with the US investigation.
According to the US indictment against Winterkorn, the VW board was informed on 27 July 2015 at the so-called “damage table” about the exhaust fraud. Although this is only officially on October 1, 2015 by BMW changed to VW, but was present at this meeting.
For the US Attorney’s Office, this session was a key moment in a supposed conspiracy – one in which Winterkorn “approved the continued concealment of the fraud software from the US regulators,” they write in the indictment against the former CEO.
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Knowing what Winterkorn and others said at the meeting at the time, Diess was very useful to the US judiciary in the investigation. For the time being, he has no criminal consequences.
In Germany is still determined against Diess, as well as against Winterkorn, on suspicion of market manipulation.
In the US, however, Winterkorn was charged by the US Department of Justice for his role in exhaust manipulation and issued a warrant for his arrest. The US Department of Justice said he was on the run for the authorities.
The former VW boss is accused of conspiring to deceive the authorities in the exhaust gas manipulation. US Attorney General and Attorney General Jeff Sessions spoke of a system of deception at the top of the world’s largest car maker.
The American investigators assume that Winterkorn had been informed in May 2014 about irregularities in diesel exhaust emissions. Winterkorn has always denied that.
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When Winterkorn testified at the beginning of 2017 in the Bundestag investigative committee that he had known nothing of all that had already believed him in the hall hardly anyone, said the SPD traffic expert Kirsten Lühmann. “But we could not compete proof.”
The fact that the judiciary has acted in the USA, but not in Germany, has to do with the different legal systems. Lühmann expects that the German judiciary will act as soon as it has collected all the evidence. It was correct that the German investigators examined for a long time, to be sure that it was not only for an indictment, but also for a conviction.
Nothing would be more embarrassing than opening a case under pressure from the public, and then the evidence would not suffice – with the consequence that the case would be closed.
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