Madrid. The Spanish National Court indicted today Volkswagen Germany for alleged manipulation of certain diesel four-cylinder engines.
Judge Ismael Moreno decided, at the request of the Prosecutor declare as investigated Europe’s biggest carmaker by “crime of fraud causing prejudice to the generality” and “fraud subsidies” and “crime against the environment”.
the subsidiary Spanish had already been charged by the same court last year.
However, the report submitted by the prosecutor includes many elements that suggest that the parent is responsible for fraudulent practices. Speaking before a judge late last year, the representative of Volkswagen-Audi Spain said the engines used in the Spanish models were manufactured in Germany and not in Spain.
The judge of the National Court issued a car in which orders notify the dome of the automotive group of the existence of criminal proceedings for and appoint a legal representative and lawyer and attorney.
the process was filed after the filed complaints shortly after broke the case of diesel engines souped, including the Anti-Fraud International Association for the Defense of People Affected by Volkswagen engines and union Manos Limpias.
Volkswagen acknowledged manipulating large-scale tests emissions of their vehicles. To this software installed in 11 million cars worldwide, -8.5 million in Europe, which lowered the vehicle emissions during testing.
In late June it was agreed that only in States States the German automaker has to bear costs about 14 thousand 700 million dollars (13 billion 300 million euros) in compensation.
So far, the company had reserved 16 000 200 million euros to pay the costs of the scandal around the world.
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