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Employees of the VW subsidiary must be responsible in connection with the diesel scandal.
WashingtonThe US judicial authorities want in the Exhaust scandal of the Volkswagen Group now also presumed responsible of Audi hold to account. Against four ex-employees of VW subsidiary An indictment was filed, as the competent court in Detroit announced on Thursday.
According to the indictment, the accused are former high-ranking executives who joined Audi were responsible for engine and diesel development. The former CEO Rupert Stadler is not among them. The four managers are not in US custody, a Justice Department spokesman in Washington said. The authorities assumed that they were in Germany were staying.
Perhaps they are like a whole series of defendants – including former VW boss Martin Winterkorn – in Germany, from where no imminent extradition threatens.
The quartet is accused in twelve cases of conspiracy, fraud and violations of US environmental laws. The men are alleged to have been part of a nearly 10-year conspiracy that violated US environmental laws through targeted manipulation of emissions tests and fraud committed against customers.
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In a US trial, the accused ex-Audi employees would face severe penalties. Two earlier ones VWEmployees have already been sentenced to over three and seven years in prison, respectively, for complicity in the “Dieselgate” scandal.
With the recent charges now 13 employees of VW Responsible in the exhaust gas affair. The car company had used around 600,000 cars with allegedly clean diesel engines, a special software. The trick made sure that pollutant emissions in tests was significantly lower than in normal road traffic.
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VW had admitted in September 2015, under pressure from the US authorities, to have tricked with the help of a special software on a large scale in the measurement of emissions. The group later gave a guilty verdict in court.
At the group level VW has the legal processing of the exhaust gas affair in the United States After some expensive compromises with public authorities and private collectors, they are largely completed. The company had to pay high penalties for the scandal and has already booked more than 25 billion euros in legal costs for comparisons in North America.
However, the US judiciary had already made it clear that the matter is not over and the investigation against the responsible heads behind the fraud persist.