GERMANY CHARGES EX VW CHIEF WITH FRAUD OVER DIESELGATE
April 1st, 2019
German prosecutors have charged the former CEO of car giant, Volkswagen, and four other unnamed executives with fraud, unfair competition and breach of trust over their role in the dieselgate scandal that broke in September 2015. It involved European auto makers being caught out deliberately cheating polluting emissions tests. Cars were fitted with software that allowed them to detect when they were undergoing testing and switch on pollution controls for the 20 or so minutes that the test-cycle took, falsely complying with EU emissions limits. Prosecutors ...
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