The Munich public prosecutor has a remarkable timing: in time for the meeting of the Volkswagen-Supervisory Council in Wolfsburg on Monday She had Rupert Stadler arrested, Now he is sitting AudiChief in custody.
The days of Stadler at Audi are numbered: He was on leave – provisionally, according to Handelsblatt information sales boss Bram Schot the CEO post.
It is the so far most serious escalation in the exhaust gas crisis, the VWGroup and the entire automotive industry has been holding its breath for almost three years. For the first time an active CEO of the German car industry has to go to jail. There is no stronger statement from the prosecutors.
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The investigators suspect in the Cause Stadler dimming danger. Several times they have the AudiCenter searches, last week his private home, In addition, there are apparently explosive statements from former Audi managers, which give an increasingly accurate picture of the events in Ingolstadt.
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That much is already clear today: Audi was the nucleus of exhaust gas fraud, here the software was developed, which later in millions of cars of the brands VW, Audi, Porsche, Seat and Skoda were used. Stadler, since 2007 Audi CEO wants to have never known anything of all. The prosecutor does not buy him this protestation.
The arrest Stadler is but above all a debacle for the VW Group. The VW Supervisory Board to Hans Dieter Pötsch has failed to enlighten the scandal effectively. The internal report of the law firm Jones Day, which should process the events at VW and Audi also for the public, he quietly disappeared in the drawer.
The public prosecutor’s office in Munich had to confiscate the document because VW did not cooperate. Stadler, heavily burdened since the beginning of the exhaust gas crisis, remained in office. With his arrest, the Audi and VW supervisory boards have today received the receipt for their lack of cooperation.
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The result is a shambles. Stadler was no longer able to hold as Audi boss, it should run over him the new beginning of the main VW subsidiary. A plan B seems to have no one at the moment.
The case is a tragedy for one of the most important car manufacturers in the Republic and its employees. And a lesson for the competitors in Stuttgart and Munich. Because both at Mercedes and at BMW investigate the prosecutors in matters of exhaust gas fraud.
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