Senior VW official Wolfgang Hatz released on bail after nine months, media report
The former Porsche director of development and a player in Audi’s engine development during the ‘dieselgate’ scandal had been held without charge
The Munich public prosecutor’s office has yet to confirm German media reports that former Volkswagen (VW) powertrain boss Wolfgang Hatz has been released on bail.The former Porsche director of development and a key player in Audi’s engine development during the VW Group’s "dieselgate" scandal had been held without charge in a Munich jail since September 2017.While Hatz’s release has included conditions such as posting a €3m surety, surrendering both his passport and German identity card, wearing an ankle bracelet and reporting to Stuttgart police twice a day, his former Audi diesel-development subordinate, Italian Giovanni Pamio, remains in custody.Hatz has also been banned from having any contact with any other suspects in the Munich public prosecutor’s Dieselgate investigation.The timing of Hatz’s release appears related to the arrest last week of Audi chairman Rupert Stadler, while he recently underwent surgery under guard. He remains ill.Little else had fundamentally changed in ...
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