Former Volkswagen CEO facing criminal charges over diesel-emissions scandal GlobeBusiness
In this file photo taken on Jan. 19, 2017, former Volkswagen CEO Martin Winterkorn is pictured inside the Bundestag compound in Berlin.Prosecutors in the German city of Braunschweig said on Monday they were pressing criminal charges against former Volkswagen chief executive Martin Winterkorn in connection with the car maker’s manipulation of diesel emissions testing.
VW was caught using illegal engine control software to cheat U.S. pollution tests in 2015, triggering a global backlash against diesel that and has so far cost it 29 billion euros .Prosecutors said Winterkorn was accused of a particularly serious case of fraud, breach of trust and breaching competition laws because he had not acted – despite having a special responsibility to do so as the company’s CEO – after it became clear on May 25, 2014, that diesel engines had been manipulated.
They added that this had resulted in Volkswagen being slapped with much higher fines in Germany and the United States than would have been the case had he acted.About a year ago, the United States filed criminal charges against Winterkorn, accusing him of conspiring to cover up the German automaker’s diesel emissions cheating.
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