Because of the diesel scandal it is now also at Daimler raids. The Stuttgart prosecutor’s office searched several locations of the car manufacturer.
Daimler logo in Berlin
Tuesday, 23.05.2017
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The prosecutor Stuttgart searched because of possible diesel exhaust manipulation several sites of Daimler 
, That informed the Stuttgart car manufacturer on Tuesday. Further information the company did not want to do in view of the ongoing investigation. The company cooperates fully with the authority.
The investigation of the prosecutor were already known in March, They are directed against “known and unknown employees of Daimler AG on suspicion of fraud and punishable advertising in connection with possible manipulation of exhaust aftertreatment in diesel cars”.
As part of the investigation, 23 prosecutors of the Stuttgart Public Prosecutor’s Office and around 230 forces of the state criminal police Baden-Wuerttemberg, all police headquarters in Baden-Wuerttemberg and the local police stations in other states searched a total of eleven objects in Baden-Wuerttemberg, Berlin, Lower Saxony, according to the Land Criminal Police Office and Saxony for documents and data carriers.
The exhaust gas scandal was due to investigations by the US authorities against Volkswagen his beginning. VW had in September 2015, the manipulation of emissions values in eleven million diesel cars worldwide admitted. The Group is faced with numerous lawsuits and billions of claims for damages. It was also last came to raids at the VW subsidiary Audi,
A year ago, Transport Minister Alexander Dobrindt had called on Daimler’s car subsidiary Mercedes-Benz and several other automakers to voluntarily recall suspicious diesel models. Cars of the companies were noticed in exhaust gas measurements of the Kraftfahrt-Bundesamt (KBA) by strongly increased nitrogen oxide values.
They are probably attributable to so-called thermal windows: Many manufacturers adjust the exhaust gas purification of cars so that they only work from a certain outside temperature – often only at more than ten degrees Celsius. For example, the protection of the engine serves as an argument. Such thermal windows are questionable, but allowed under the EU directives under certain conditions.