A Volkswagen board member has admitted that some staff acted criminally over the emissions cheat tests.
Olaf Lies, who is also economy minister of the German state of Lower Saxony, said those who allowed the deception to happen must take ‘personal responsibility’ for the fall-out.
German prosecutors are leading probes by several countries into the scam – including an inquiry against former CEO Martin Winterkorn – after the firm admitted 11million diesel cars had been fitted with software to cheat pollution tests.
(Daily Mail, September 30, 2015)
Never mind the irony of having a board member named Mr. Lies explain how “shocked, shocked” his colleagues are that VW staff perpetrated this fraud.
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