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VW pays millions in California

In California experts have uncovered the exhaust gas scandal at Volkswagen, with – and now the US is to get the state of a substantial part of the fines by the group.

$ 86 million (78 million euros) is supposed to flow to California as the country’s attorney General Kamala Harris on Thursday (local time) announced. Thus California is likely to receive among the 44 States that had filed a complaint against VW, the largest sum. At the end of June, Volkswagen had communicated with the 44 States compared – VW acknowledges the existing and possible future consumer protection actions with an amount in excess of a total of 603 million U.S. dollars from the world.

But that is only the level of the Federal States. In addition, the wolf Burger must cost a lot of money expected to be up to 14.7 billion dollars in the United States. The largest part of which is intended for customers. VW had agreed in the USA with authorities, car dealers and many of the damaged vehicle owners recently on the 14.7-billion-Dollar comparison.

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The Department of California was instrumental in the discovery of the affair. The Wolfsburg-based car maker had admitted to the allegations of the US authorities in September 2015, in the United States, hundreds of thousands of diesel car with an illegal Software to Trick the exhaust test fitted. The competent US judge Charles Breyer must agree to the VW and the plaintiffs negotiated compromise. At the end of July, it will report this back to word.

Also in Europe

The Spanish judiciary launched an investigation into the Volkswagen group. The judge, Ismael Moreno decided by the National court in Madrid. The Volkswagen AG stand in the suspicion of fraud, subsidy fraud, and the violation of the environmental laws, as stated in the disposal of the lawyers.

In the course of the exhaust-affair in Belgium calls by several German car manufacturers, information about Software applications in vehicles. The focus of Volkswagen, Opel, BMW, Mercedes and Audi are among other things, such as the Ministry of economy announced in Brussels. The manufacturer should explain, among other things, who decide in business, whether a Software is to be applied, and to what extent would inform the customer about it.

zdh/sti (afp, dpa)