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The Munich public prosecutor suspects four more Audi employees in the diesel scandal.
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MunichThe prosecutor Munich II has in the diesel scandal their investigations against Audi expanded. She now has four more in her files, totaling 24 defendants, as the authorities confirmed on demand. The newly added suspects should be four AudiEmployees act after the announcement of the diesel scandal at Volkswagen In 2015, the internal education may have hindered the carmaker.
Remarkable: At least in part, it was even the explicit task of the newly accused, to clarify to what extent also manipulated exhaust emissions. The suspicion was raised by the evaluation of internal communication at Audi, in which the four employees concealed the truth, according to the investigators and thus complicate the further investigation of the exhaust gas scandal.
Audi has made the prosecution itself aware of how the group indicates on demand. An Audi spokesman acknowledged: “The latest newly gained findings were notified to the Munich II public prosecutor and fully disclosed.” Accordingly, the prosecutor initiated the preliminary investigation accordingly.
Whether the four employees, who are active in different departments, continue to work for Audi or whether Audi has taken employment-related measures, said the car maker on demand not. It is also unknown why events that happened a long time ago did not strike until now – more than three years after the manipulations became public.
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The scandal was pretty quick at the time Volkswagen also extended to the subsidiary Audi. The Ingolstadt had to admit to have also installed in their three-liter diesel engines, a software that the exhaust emissions beautiful. In 2016, there were indications that Audi had even developed the fraud software at VW.
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However, the work of the law enforcement agencies did not start until several months later. In March 2017, the Audi headquarters was just during the annual press conference target of a large-scale raid of the investigators. In the following months, the further investigation finally led to arrests: first in the summer of 2017 it met the engineer Giovanni Pamio, then the manager Wolfgang Hatz and finally in June 2018 the then acting CEO Rupert Stadler.
Like Pamio and Hatz Stadler came only after several months pre-trial detention and only on condition free again. Against all three and one employee Pamios prepares the Munich public prosecutor’s office according to Handelsblatt information, an indictment, which she wants to raise so in the first half. In addition, the prosecutor Munich II leads in the diesel scandal still a second investigation against Audi. Three employees are accused of fraud in South Korea.
Meanwhile, in the US, the judicial authority has filed charges against four former Audi executives late last week, including ex-development director Stefan Knirsch and ex-chief of diesel engine development, Richard Bauder. The quartet is accused in twelve cases of conspiracy, fraud and violations of US environmental laws.