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The Dieselgate emissions scandal
Ex-Audi CEO Rupert Stadler during his trial in a Munich court on Wednesday Former Audi boss Rupert Stadler will plead guilty over the “dieselgate” vehicle emissions-cheating scandal, a German court said Wednesday, which would make him the first auto CEO
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Rupert Stadler, the former head of German car manufacturer Audi, has said he will plead guilty in his trial over falsified emissions test results for the company’s diesel cars — commonly referred to as the “dieselgate” scandal — his lawyers
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Former Audi boss Rupert Stadler is ready to make a confession about his role in the diesel emissions scandal in exchange for a suspended sentence and a payment of 1.1 million euros ($1.21 million), he and his defence team said
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Mercedes is being accused of installing four “defeat devices” in its diesel cars in a High Court case that threatens to be the biggest in British legal history. A third of a million motorists are suing the German car manufacturer
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Former Volkswagen executive Wolfgang Hatz, who was the head of engine development at Audi and then R&D chief at Porsche, pleaded guilty to using illegal defeat devices that helped various VW cars cheat emissions, in the VW dieselgate scandal. The
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The ‘dieselgate’ saga has cost VW billions of euros in fines, legal costs and compensation to car owners — mainly in the United States – Copyright ispace/AFP Handout A former top executive at German carmaker Audi on Tuesday pleaded guilty
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BRAUNSCHWEIG (dpa-AFX) – After a lengthy break, the diesel criminal trial against four Volkswagen executives, some of them former, is to resume on Tuesday (9:30 a.m.). The parental leave of a member of the court had made the break in
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By Lucia Osborne-Crowley (March 30, 2023, 5:25 PM BST) — An adviser to the European Court of Justice said Thursday that Volkswagen should not be prosecuted in Italy over its “defeat device” scandal because the auto giant has already been hit
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Volkswagen cannot be punished twice for the same offence in two member states, according to an advocate general for the European Court of Justice (ECJ), as a decision is awaited in the ongoing ‘dieselgate’ scandal. by Sarah Byrne *** This
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