Media: the United States hunt VW managers in the world

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Volkswagen is not in the diesel scandal to rest. Now, some reports by the media, that the U.S. Department of justice has apparently announced five former Volkswagen Manager and developer of the world’s APB.

Including two Familiar to the former VW CEO Martin Winterkorn, the Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ), the North German broadcasting (NDR) and Westdeutsche Rundfunk (WDR) reported. The aim of the US authorities to bring the accused for conspiracy to commit fraud and violation of U.S. environmental laws to be put behind bars.

In the case of the Wanted it was the former member of the VW brand Board of management Heinz-Jakob Neußer, the former head of VW quality management Bernd Gottweis, as well as two Diesel-developers and a technician. Against the five men also in Germany, the competent Prosecutor’s office in Braunschweig is going to be determined.

Delivery, little probably

Germany will not hand over the accused, but surely the US authorities, because the Federal Republic of German state for returning citizens, in principle, to foreign countries. The men of Germany were to leave, they ran the risk of being arrested and to be extradited to the United States, the result of the joint research of SZ, NDR and WDR. The Volkswagen group did not respond to the report, it said.

At the beginning of the year, the US-Federal police, FBI already has a VW Manager during a stopover in the United States at the airport in Miami. He faces up to 169 years in prison, according to the U.S. Department of justice.

tko/sti (rtr, tageschau.de)