No vacation for Volkswagen lawyers. After agreeing in June to pay more than $ 15 billion in damages to respond to civil proceedings, the German automaker now faces another judicial front in the US – the criminal, this time. According to information of the “Wall Street Journal”, the investigators of the Department of Justice, which are on the subject since January, today would hold enough evidence on the scandal of fake Diesel engines to accuse some group employees “acts criminals. ” Starting with a PowerPoint presentation from 2006, showing the way around the US emission standards …
Rather than a trial, American justice and Volkswagen could attempt establish a compromise ending the criminal proceedings since last fall. At Wolfsburg, we wish indeed conclude as soon as the endless black series (and blow up the prison check some of its employees), while in Washington estimated that it would be obvious, if necessary , to extradite to Germany the defendants. Moreover, Volkswagen will we know for accepting a civil bill of $ 15 billion.
Conclude the Black Series
In the context of such an agreement, the European manufacturer should recognize wrongs that would be charged, but also commit not to repeat them and finally pay a new fine. In April 2014, the Japanese Toyota had disbursed $ 1.2 billion to close a faulty accelerators history and in September, the US General Motors had disbursed $ 900 million to settle a case of ignition switches. In this case, the amount that Volkswagen may pay should exceed these amounts, said the American daily.
For its part, Volkswagen always says “cooperate with federal and local judicial authorities” . Among these well face the Department of Justice: “Our discussions focus on a resolution of the outstanding issues” , the company said. A priori, the negotiations between the two parties on the criminal aspect of the “VWgate” is not expected to conclude before the end of the year.
The air of nothing, things move on the other side of the Atlantic. In late July, the US judge handling the case has validated the agreement on 475,000 cars Volkswagen 2 liters. The agreement requires the manufacturer to redeem the offending vehicle owners who wish to pay them compensation ranging from 5,000 to 10,000 dollars, to 2.7 billion in an ecological investment funds and invest 2 billion for zero emission technologies.
In total, therefore the invoice scandal goes far beyond the $ 15 billion in the US alone. Because even if Volkswagen gets away with it on the criminal aspect of the thing, he has yet to find a solution for the 85,000 models 3 liters equipped faker software. Of supercars Porsche, Audi and Volkswagen sold at least several tens of thousands of dollars …
Julien Dupont-Calbo, Les Echos
key dates
15 September 2015 . The US Environment Agency reveals the presence of software to rig the emission tests.
22 September 2015 The Group CEO Martin Winterkorn is replaced by Matthias Müller.
end of September. the group confirmed that 11 million vehicles worldwide are equipped with the fraudster software.
January 2015. the US justice opened a criminal investigation against employees of Volkswagen
June . 2016 the group agreed to pay over $ 15 billion in damages to end the civil lawsuits in the US
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