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German prosecutors have charged six Volkswagen managers with fraud, accusing them of “deliberately misleading” authorities and customers in the run-up to the diesel emissions scandal in 2015, by failing to disclose the existence of cheat devices. The 876-page indictment, which does not name those …
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Auto giant Volkswagen said on Thursday that it was in initial talks to offer a settlement in a mass lawsuit brought against the companyby German diesel car owners. About 400,000 customers have joined the suit over the Dieselgate emissions cheating scandal that came to light in 2015. “Volkswagen and …
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Volkswagen is in discussions over an out-of-court settlement with more than 400,000 German owners of vehicles that were affected by the carmaker’s “Dieselgate” emissions-rigging scandal. Germany’s VZBV – an umbrella group of consumer rights organisations – said it had entered talks about a …
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Image copyright Getty Images Volkswagen has said it is in talks with a group of German drivers who are suing the car giant over excessive emissions from its diesel cars. The motorists say they were affected when VW “cheated” emissions rules by installing unlawful “defeat devices” in its diesel …
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Prosecutors in Germany raided VW headquarters, reportedly looking for information on the EA288 engine. In simulations, the engine was found not to indicate properly when its diesel filter fails. The engine is successor to the EA189 engine that was involved in Dieselgate, a scandal over rigged …
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VW officials allegedly cooperated with the investigation, which took place on Tuesday in Wolfsburg. Volkswagen Five years after the hugely damaging Dieselgate scandal, Volkswagen AG is again under scrutiny from authorities who reportedly raided the automaker’s headquarters in Wolfsburg, Germany on …
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Image copyright Getty Images Volkswagen “cheated” European emissions rules designed “to save lives” by installing unlawful “defeat devices” in diesel cars, the High Court has heard. Tens of thousands of UK motorists who bought VW, Audi, Seat and Skoda diesel cars are taking legal action in the …
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A landmark legal action against Volkswagen has begun, with hundreds of thousands of German consumers seeking compensation from the carmaker over emissions test cheating. Volkswagen has already paid out more than €30bn (£26.7bn) around the world in fines, compensation and legal costs since the …
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More than three quarters of the 43m cars tampered with in the Dieselgate emissions test cheating scandal are still on the road four years later. It will probably take another two years to recall the remaining 33m vehicles that were tampered with, according to analysis of unpublicised European …
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Volkswagen can’t seem to shake off its “Dieselgate” scandal, even as it has cost the company more than $30 billion in fines, penalties, restitution and settlement of lawsuits since September 2015. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) last week charged Volkswagen AG, two of its …
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