Thousands of consumers in Maryland have been cheated and the air has been massively polluted – so the charge to Volkswagen. Now the corporation and the US state have agreed on a million-dollar settlement.
VW logo at the auto show in Detroit
Thursday, 26.04.2018
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Volkswagen has agreed in the US on a further settlement with plaintiffs in the “diesel gate” scandal. The German carmaker pays the state of Maryland together with the daughters Audi and Porsche Up to $ 33.5 million for manipulated exhaust emissions, Attorney General Brian Frosh said Wednesday in Baltimore. That’s about 27.5 million euros.
As can be seen from court documents, the company pays $ 29 million. An additional $ 4.5 million is only due if companies do not use a state-owned port for some of their logistics over the next five years, thereby boosting the local economy.
Automakers have cheated thousands of consumers in Maryland and massively polluted the air, prosecutor Frosh said. The comparison shows that polluters paid a high price in his state.
VW described the agreement as an important step forward in resolving the remaining regional US environmental claims in the context of the “diesel issue”. The auto giant has in the course of exhaust affair, which was uncovered by the US Environmental Protection Agency in September 2015, already has legal costs of more than 25 billion euros for settlements with plaintiffs in North America recorded.