VOLKSWAGEN TOP OFFICIAL REFUSES AT CONSUMER CONFERENCE TO ADMIT COMPANY ACTING ILLEGALLY OVER EMISSIONS
September 1st, 2016
A top Volkswagen official refused to acknowledge to a European consumer organization (BEUC) conference in Brussels yesterday (September 28) that the company had acted illegally in Europe in fitting defeat devices to its cars, despite apologizing for doing so. Imelda Wander-Lamé, Volkswagen’s director of group after sales, told the ‘Fitness check on the car sector in Europe’ conference on the dieselgate scandal and its aftermath: “We are truly sorry for this inconvenience and loss of trust that we caused to our customers.” But when pressed by one ...
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