The written defence of a detained Audi engineer contains explosive details of the handling of a German car manufacturer with the diesel scandal. You are correct, it could be tight for the current Company.
44 operations on 28 pages. With this paper, the former Audi engineer Giovanni P. tried to defend himself, and charged his former employer. Giovanni P. sits in the prison in Munich-Stadelheim in custody. The entries in the paper is to show that the technician was only a small cog in the System of the Diesel-swindle, the great wheel was turned by the top managers – up to today’s Audi-CEO Rupert Stadler.
Audi belongs to the VW group, which is shaken by the diesel scandal to the very foundations. So far not is determined against a single, named representative of the Audi Board of management, but against the company as a whole. It goes to the suspicion in the US of 80,000 buyers of diesel vehicles are systematically cheated. In the centre of the allegations, a technique of using the exhaust gases of diesel engines, if cleaned, should be, that they would conform to the strict pollution limits in the United States.
First reports in 2006?
The engineer in custody describes in the paper, the “süddeutsche Zeitung” and the blade reported on Monday that the Audi Board of Directors would have long since known that the exhaust gas purifier is working properly. “Should have taken place in the time table of events described actually so,” the newspaper writes, “then many of the Employees knew to top managers of the manipulated pollutant measurements.”
Clean Diesel technology, thanks to the accessories?
Already on 9. In October 2006, to inform the report, according to a leading engine developer at Audi, several of the managers about the basic problem with the cleaning of exhaust gases with Adblue – a mixture of artificial urea and water, which neutralizes the harmful nitrogen oxides. The Tank with Adblue in the cars of Audi had been small designed. Therefore, had been installed in the cars later, special Software, through the nitrogen oxide values are manipulated. Among the executives, the former Audi boss Martin winter is supposed to be grain been a little later, the Ingolstadt-based company for the parent company Volkswagen in Wolfsburg moved and Chairman of the Executive Board took over.
The Diesel scandal came out in September 2015. In the result, winter grain lost his Post. From the pages of the Munich public Prosecutor’s office, it was, you check the details of the engineer. So far, will not be determined against current or former members of the management Board of Audi. The Süddeutsche Zeitung writes, the parent company, Volkswagen would have communicated to the report: “With reference to an ongoing investigation, we comment on the information.”
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