Munich prosecutors raided the office of the Director of Volkswagen
Munich prosecutors raided the office of the Director of Volkswagen Matthias Mueller in the investigation of diesel scandal. This writes the German newspaper Bild am Sonntag, Reuters reports.
According to the newspaper, the investigation is conducted against 47 employees of the automaker, including Mueller and the General Director “daughters” Volkswagen Audi Rupert Stadler.
Investigators check their personal calendars, notebooks and memory cards smartphones.
Wednesday, March 15, Reuters reported that German investigators carried out searches at two Audi plants in Germany. The searches were held at the enterprise in Ingolstadt and Neckarsulm in Baden-württemberg, and also in the office of Volkswagen in Wolfsburg in Lower Saxony and six unnamed sites. In the investigative activities involved 100 law enforcement officers, the Agency said.
A source familiar with the situation told Reuters that 70 police officers carried out searches in offices and private apartments in Ingolstadt. He noted that the searches in the house of Stadler did not pass.
As stated by the Prosecutor’s office in Munich, during the searches the investigators will establish who exactly was involved in “desligado” and “providing false information to a third party”
The Prosecutor did not call the names of the suspects.
Volkswagen is accused of providing false information about the level of toxic substances in the exhaust gases their vehicles. In diesel engines of cars of the automaker installed the software, which underestimated emissions in atmosphere of harmful substances. False information was allowed to bypass environmental tests in the United States that measure the level of toxic substances in exhaust gases.
Volkswagen said it will pay US regulators $4.3 billion to settle oil companies. The company also expressed willingness to plead guilty to violations of environmental regulations. In addition, on January 24, the U.S. District court approved the agreement between Volkswagen and 650 U.S. dealers, according to which the German campaign will pay for each $1.85 million compensation for “diesel scandal.”