The giant German automaker promised it would clean up its act after the Dieselgate scandal broke in 2015, in which it came out that the company’s employees were too scared to tell the CEO, Martin Winterkorn, that they didn’t stand a snowball’s chance in hell of meeting targets for cutting emissions, so they just fiddled the test instead.
This cost the company about £30bn in fines and compensation. Winterkorn resigned after the scandal broke, but serious cases against him and four other senior executives continue...
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