Volkswagen cars are ready for shipment in the port of Emden.
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It took Volkswagen a year to resist it: Now Germany’s top judges have decided against the automaker.
I m diesel scandal, the investigators allowed after one year delay extensive documents from a commissioned by VW evaluate the working firm. The Federal Constitutional Court dismissed several constitutional complaints against the confiscation, as was communicated this Friday in Karlsruhe. Volkswagen AG was not violated either in its right to informational self-determination or in its right to a fair trial, it was said in the grounds.
The dispute revolves around data and files, which were secured in March 2017 during a search of the Munich business premises of the law firm Jones Day. This law firm is working on the exhaust scandal for the carmaker internally. End of July 2017 had the constitutional court in an urgent decision, the evaluation of the documents stopped until decided on the constitutional lawsuits. This decision is now available – to the detriment of VW.