Detroit, Michigan – The former executive of Volkswagen (VW) in charge of the cars of the signature comply with the standards of the united States on emissions was arrested over the weekend in Florida and accused of deceiving the federal authorities competent on the use of a special software program for that brand vehicles will unduly emissions testing.
Oliver Schmidt, who was general manager of the office of engineering and environmental affairs of the VW in the united States, was accused of conspiracy to cheat the federal government and wire fraud.
Schmidt, German 48 years old, and resident in the united States, is the second executive of the VW-arrested in the framework of the investigation against the company, which has acknowledged that its vehicles with diesel engines were scheduled to ignite controls anti-pollutant for the emissions testing and turn them off in actual displacement. The scandal has cost it sales to the VW and stained the reputation of the global brand.
At a court hearing held on Monday in Miami ordered that Schmidt remain stopped before the Prosecution’s argument that there was danger I’d run away if he was left in freedom. Schmidt will have another hearing on Thursday, and then maybe moved to Detroit, where he is based the research of the Department of Justice.
In the criminal complaint dated December 30, is accused of Schmidt to collude with other executives of Volkswagen to deceive the federal authorities about why the vehicles of the brand aired highest emissions in actual displacement during the trials.
Schmidt “outlined the reasons for the discrepancy” but it’s not that the vehicles of the company were cheated in the emissions testing by a computer program illegally installed on diesel vehicles, according to court documents.
The evidence relied on by the nonprofit organization Council on Clean Transportation found in 2014 that certain models Volkswagen with diesel engines had emissions that exceeded the permissible limits of pollutants.
More than a year later, Volkswagen acknowledged that it had installed the software in about 500,000 vehicles VW and Audi diesel engines of two liters in the united States. The company later said that some models with a diesel engine of three liters were also cheating.
After that study, Schmidt, apparently in reference to the compliance of the emissions on the part of VW, he wrote to a colleague: “you Must decide first if we are honest. If we are not, everything is left as it is.”
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