According to German media recently reported that the public exhaust door scandal may be the public former chief executive Winterkorn pay a heavy price.
In extreme cases, Winterkorn may lose all personal property. The Volkswagen Group's Board of Supervisors is investigating whether former and incumbent directors must be held legally responsible for the loss of billions of euros caused by the tailpipe scandal, according to the Frankfurt report Sunday Edition. Legal experts point out that, in extreme cases, Winterkorn may lose all personal property.
The report said that the public Board of Supervisors has been circulating Winterkorn property data, ' said the insider ', Winterkorn has 100 million euros of wealth. At the moment, the US Justice Department has sued Winterkorn for the tailpipe scandal, charged with conspiring to defraud the United States. The US side also issued an arrest warrant. Although Germany will not extradite its citizens to the United States, the German Manager magazine reported that ' Winterkorn is on the run '. The German prosecutors ' office is also investigating the legal liability of Winterkorn and 38 other people in the tailpipe scandal. Even if the Winterkorn does not leave Germany, it is possible that the public or the German judiciary will be sued in court. Under pressure from the US, VW's management admitted in September 2015 that it had manipulated emissions data. Later, Winterkorn resigned, although he admitted that the public manipulated the software, but always denied that he had already known.
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Three years ago, the German government knew that the pollution of diesel vehicles led to the mass exhaust door
VW's exhaust door escalated again, German media exposure Germany's government as early as three years ago that diesel vehicle emissions exceeded the standard, but in order to avoid the implementation of the ban on diesel vehicles did not act, and even led to the mass exhaust door. local time, May 7, Germany, "Economic weekly" reported that long before the public exhaust door exposure, the German chancellery knew that car emissions pollution is not in line with EU requirements, but also know that this is caused by diesel vehicle exhaust emissions. According to an internal mail from the German Prime minister's Chancellery March 20, 2015, experts suggested banning diesel vehicles in the German urban interior: ' In order to meet EU requirements, there will be a need to ban diesel vehicles in urban areas in the future. ' But the message said: ' The diesel-car ban will cause a huge image damage to German diesel technology '.
The mail was sent to the office of the Prime Minister, the head of the office, the German economic minister Peter Altmaier. The message explicitly attributed the issue of car emissions to diesel vehicles: ' The emissions of toxic gases from diesel engines have not diminished over the past few years. '
The economics weekly said it might have spawned the exhaust doors, and carmakers have used illegal tampering software to get their emissions up to standard.
A spokesman for the German government confirmed the news, and Peter Altmaier, head of office at the Chancellery, did receive the message. Germany's multiple political parties accuse the German Government of sharing the blame for the exhaust. The German FDP spokesman said: ' If the German government knew in March 2015 that a diesel-car ban was needed, the government would obviously have to take on the responsibility that it caused. '
