VW CEO met with FBI days before US indicted his predecessor
Volkswagen CEO Herbert Diess’s statements are ‘rated as incriminatory’ against former CEO, Martin Winterkorn, who has an international arrest warrant against him
Berlin — Volkswagen (VW) CEO Herbert Diess met FBI investigators over the diesel emissions cheating scandal and secured guarantees from Washington days before US authorities indicted his predecessor, German media reported on Tuesday. Diess reportedly travelled to the US on May 1 and gave statements to investigators from the FBI and US justice department that are "apparently rated as incriminatory" for former VW CEO Martin Winterkorn, Bild daily said, quoting unnamed sources. Winterkorn’s indictment on May 3 has brought the US criminal case to the top echelons of VW, which pleaded guilty last year to lying to American environmental regulators about emission control systems. Winterkorn faces four counts, including conspiracy to defraud the US, and wire fraud. American prosecutors say Winterkorn knew of the company’s emissions cheating as early as May 2014 but decided to continue with the fraud, the justice department said in a statement. While Winterkorn cannot leave Germany due to th...
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