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The Dieselgate emissions scandal
It feels like we’ve been writing about Volkswagen’s emissions scandal, better known as ‘Dieselgate,’ for years. That’s because we have — almost half a decade, in fact. To round off the whole saga, the US’ Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has
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VW paid car buyers more than $9.5 billion in ‘Dieselgate’ settlements Loading Something is loading. Loading… Account icon An icon in the shape of a person’s head and shoulders. It often indicates a user profile. Log in Subscribe Subscribe World
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The logo of German automaker Volkswagen appears on flags fluttering in front of a car dealer in Hamm, Germany, in May. One of VW’s many legal settlements over the Dieselgate scandal has finally reached its conclusion, the FTC says. Ina
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Volkswagen has paid out more than $9.5 billion to customers in the aftermath of the “Dieselgate” scandal, according to a court summary published by the US Federal Trade Commission. In 2016, the FTC charged Volkswagen with intentionally deceiving consumers by
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A former Volkswagen executive sentenced to seven years for his role in the automaker’s emissions cheating scandal was cleared Thursday to leave federal prison in Michigan more than two years early and finish his jail time in his native Germany. A federal
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Oliver Schmidt, a former Volkswagen executive will be extradited to Germany, a US court ruled on Thursday. He had already been sentenced to seven years in prison in the United States for his role in the carmaker’s emissions cheating scandal. The
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The state of Israel has filed a $152 million lawsuit against Volkswagen AG, Audi AG, and local distributor Champion Motors for alleged fraud and negligence relating to the dieselgate scandal. The state filed the lawsuit with the Tel Aviv District
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BERLIN, June 30 (Xinhua) — With more than 240,000 cases in Germany concluded, Volkswagen paid out more than 750 million euros (842 million U.S. dollars) to customers in settlements, the German carmaker announced on Tuesday. With the transfer of money,
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Alleged manipulation of diesel vehicles’ emission testing was back in UK news this week Dieselgate has reared its ugly ahead again, this time in the UK, getting on for five years after Volkswagen admitted cheating on US emissions testing, sparking
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Hey, remember Dieselgate? The zombie Volkswagen emissions scandal that started approximately three hundred lifetimes ago in 2015? VW apparently isn’t done feeling the ill effects of its bid to trick customers and regulators into thinking its diesel engines were less
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