About: http://data.cimple.eu/news-article/1af86c0e2d1034514234b0690085031c29b00d61965a158d4c3835bf     Goto   Sponge   NotDistinct   Permalink

An Entity of Type : schema:NewsArticle, within Data Space : data.cimple.eu associated with source document(s)

AttributesValues
rdf:type
schema:articleBody
  • Berlin prosecutors said Wednesday they have charged Volkswagen's former chief executive Martin Winterkorn with making false statements to a parliamentary committee over the automobile giant's emissions-cheating "Dieselgate" scandal. "The public prosecutor's office accuses the defendant of giving false testimony on January 19, 2017, as a witness before the 'emissions' investigation committee," they said. Winterkorn claimed to have learnt about illegal devices installed in VW vehicles to trick emissions tests only in September 2015, when he is believed to already be aware by May that year, they said. The issue was also raised at a crisis meeting of Volkswagen executives in July 2015, the statement said. Winterkorn resigned in September 2015, a week after the diesel emissions scandal broke. He is already facing trial in Germany on charges of organised commercial fraud and serious tax evasion over the case. Separately, Volkswagen on Wednesday said it had come to a deal with Winterkorn for the former chief executive to pay the company 11.2 million euros ($14 million) in damages. Another former board member, Rupert Stadler, will pay 4.1 million euros. Stadler, the former head of VW's Audi division, had been the first VW senior executive to go on trial over "dieselgate" in the fraud proceedings which opened in Munich last year. The revelations that Volkswagen had installed devices in 11 million diesel vehicles worldwide to dupe pollution tests plunged the company into a deep crisis. It has so far cost the German car giant more than 30 billion euros in fines, legal costs and compensation. hmn/dlc/spm
schema:headline
  • VW ex-CEO charged with false testimony in 'dieselgate' scandal
schema:mentions
schema:author
schema:datePublished
http://data.cimple...sPoliticalLeaning
http://data.cimple...logy#hasSentiment
http://data.cimple...readability_score
http://data.cimple...tology#hasEmotion
Faceted Search & Find service v1.16.115 as of Oct 09 2023


Alternative Linked Data Documents: ODE     Content Formats:   [cxml] [csv]     RDF   [text] [turtle] [ld+json] [rdf+json] [rdf+xml]     ODATA   [atom+xml] [odata+json]     Microdata   [microdata+json] [html]    About   
This material is Open Knowledge   W3C Semantic Web Technology [RDF Data] Valid XHTML + RDFa
OpenLink Virtuoso version 07.20.3238 as of Jul 16 2024, on Linux (x86_64-pc-linux-musl), Single-Server Edition (126 GB total memory, 5 GB memory in use)
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2025 OpenLink Software