Larry Thompson: US inspector sees after diesel scandal no more violations at VW

Larry Thompson and Hiltrud Werner in August 2018

The US monitor should look Volkswagen on the finger, so that failures as in the diesel scandal four years ago can not be repeated.

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Wolfsburg The of the US Justice for the processing of the diesel scandal used minder Larry Thompson joined in the second year of his work Volkswagen no violations of the conditions found. That explained VW-Rechtsvorständin Hiltrud Werner on Wednesday in Wolfsburg.

The management and ever larger parts of the workforce have taken heed to the principles of compliance and the new corporate culture. Indications of violations are now reported to 90 percent source and no longer anonymous. Thompson wanted to explain his second of three planned reports on Wednesday in front of the press.

The US monitor should look Volkswagen on the finger, so that failures as in the diesel scandal four years ago can not be repeated. For this he had put together a team of at times approximately 100 specialists, to whom the car manufacturer must make available on request all the necessary documents.

The monitor monitors since 2017, whether the Wolfsburg the settlement concluded with the US authorities comply with the promised reforms. In the negotiations with the US judiciary, VW had admitted having cheated with exhaust systems authorities and customers for years, violated environmental law and lied to the judiciary.

The criminal settlement alone had a volume of four billion dollars. Overall, the processing of the world’s million-fold exhaust manipulation VW so far cost 30 billion euros.

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