BMW
The car maker comes in the diesel scandal with a fine.
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DusseldorfBMW must because of misconduct in the diesel scandal pay a fine of 8.5 million euros. As the public prosecutor informed Munich on Monday, the authority issued the penalty notice for an administrative offense of negligent breach of duty. BMW have waived appeal, so that the fine order is already final.
Background was the investigation of prosecutors for emissions. The initial suspicion of fraud had not confirmed, however.
BMW is thus a little cheaper than initially expected. According to a newspaper report from last September, the prosecutor had offered to stop the proceedings against a fine in the “low” or “lowest double-digit million range”.
The low sum underscores that the case with the diesel scandal in the Volkswagen Group not comparable. VW and Audi have alone in Germany 1.8 billion euros in fines paid in the US, the sum was many times higher. As Volkswagen announced in the past week, the total expense in the diesel scandal now amounts to about 28 billion euros.
The public prosecutor’s office in Stuttgart had initiated a fine procedure in the past week; The car maker is also threatened with a severe punishment here. Currently, similar procedures are in progress Porsche and Bosch.
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Last June BMW had to recall a total of 11,700 diesel cars to a software update in the workshops. The affected BMW 5 Series and 7 Series encountered too much nitric oxide on the road as well as on the test bench because their engines were controlled with software for SUV models.
“We made a mistake some years ago,” BMW boss had Harald Kruger declared at the Annual General Meeting in May 2018. “To put it bluntly: With a targeted manipulation of engine control and emission control that has nothing to do.” Supervisory Board chief Norbert Reithofer spoke of “craft, human error”.
BMW had reported the process after an internal review in February 2018 even the Federal Motor Transport Authority (KBA). The public prosecutor’s office Munich determined against unknown on the basis of the suspicion of a “test stand-related shutdown device”. Last March, the Group headquarters and research center in Munich and the engine plant in Steyr, Austria were searched.
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