Former Volkswagen chief Martin Winterkorn on Monday became the target of German charges over the group’s “dieselgate” emissions cheating scandal, bringing the affair back into headlines as VW battles to turn eyes to its future.
Prosecutors in Brunswick, near VW’s Wolfsburg HQ in northern Germany, said they had charged Winterkorn and four other managers.
Such allegations have hit other German manufacturers since, with Mercedes-Benz maker Daimler confirming Sunday it was facing a regulatory probe, reportedly over 60 000 vehicles. But in his role as “guarantor” to authorities and customers that the group was not selling cheating vehicles, Winterkorn “failed to reveal” the fraud immediately after he learned of it as early as May 2014, or to prevent the sale of infringing vehicles, prosecutors said.
It was not immediately clear whether the other four accused on Monday — whom prosecutors did not identify by name or position — still work at VW or have since left. VW plans 70 electric models by 2028, and hopes to sell 22 million electric vehicles over the same period.“Volkswagen will change radically… make no mistake, the supertanker is picking up speed,” Herbert Diess — the group’s second CEO since Winterkorn — said in March.
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