The first judgment because of diesel gate

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On Friday, the U.S. Department of justice, will condemn, for the first time a VW employee for his role in the diesel-gate affair. However, the author and instigator, and know the prosecutors. You have greater caliber in the visor

The beginnings of the sensational diesel affair, the Volkswagen group is back this Friday, once again in the focus. A district judge in the city of Detroit is to announce the sentence for the 63-year-old Ex-Volkswagen engineer James Robert Liang

Together with his colleagues installed James Liang, the fraud software in the US diesel cars. The Prosecutor had demanded three years in prison and a fine of $ 20,000.Robert Liang, 62, for 33 years at VW has had known already in September 2016 is officially guilty of being over ten years in the use of those Software have been involved, the Volkswagen to date losses of around 20 billion dollars has been introduced. Liang’s defenders argue for a suspended sentence, he could spend a year in house arrest. It is the first judgment, the spoken against a VW Manager.

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For morality is not responsible

“James Liang was a pragmatist,” – said in a document of the Prosecutor’s office, the Handelsblatt cited. “As an engineer, he was responsible for, to find practical solutions to problems. Whether or not this was morally correct, and would take care of others. He refused, “to contradict, to be a Whistleblower or to terminate.”

Although Liang see his wrongdoing now, but the judgment of the court must, nevertheless, be strict enough to punish him for his role in the stunning case of fraud, and to pull him for his crimes to account,” argued the Prosecutor. You want to make an example for other managers.

Liang is a German citizen, living since 2008 in the United States. VW had admitted that the cars only have to stick on the roller test bench, the exhaust gas values in the normal driving operation, however, emit 40 times more exhaust gases than allowed, and more than 20 billion Dollar fine paid. Liang was involved in this strategy.

“The horse and the rider’s call”

Because his confession is associated with the willingness to clarify the Case to participate and to call witnesses who would have to be the engineer with criminal discount. A perspective that is not only in Wolfsburg, probably still in a panic. The only question is: How far is the bevy of accomplices is enough hierarchy in the VW? You can run the criminally relevant evidence that Top Manager from the Board of Directors, including the former VW Boss Martin Winterkorn, knew of the Fraud in the US?

Also, the involvement of the Stuttgart-based automotive supplier Bosch, who controls the Computer technology, the disguise in around 600,000 VW diesel models, the exhaust gas balance and the strict environment helped to circumvent laws in America, could be due to Liang, the subject of court proceedings.

With Liang, the US investigators have a “real pounds,” wrote a Blogger on the automotive scene at the time. In order to reduce his sentence, had to call the Ex-engineer’s “horse and rider”. Whether this also applies to the automotive supplier Bosch, is still open. US lawyers see in the Stuttgart group is the most important accomplice Volkswagen in the exhaust gas affair. You want to move the traditional company from Gerlingen – similar to VW – a multi-billion dollar out-of-court settlement should be at far above the 750 million euros, the Bosch as a precaution already.