It’s almost exactly six years ago that the emissions scandal of German carmaker Volkswagen (VW) was uncovered by the California Air Resources Board (CARB) on September 18, 2015.
All of the defendants will testify that they had either passed on their knowledge of the manipulations to their superiors and therefore cannot be held responsible, or that they didn’t know anything at all about the wrongdoings.
Formerly one of Germany’s best-paid executives, with a salary of €16 million in 2015 and now a VW pension of € 1.3 million per year, he got away with one-off damages to the tune of €11.2 million.