The U.S. Department of justice, for work-up of the diesel scandal at VW used Watchdog Larry Thompson has presented a first report. The Compliance Monitor noted some violations of US requirements.
So the information had been provided sporadically, with some delay, defendant Thompson. As an Independent Compliance Auditor (ICA), he had expressed his concerns in this regard. “This issue is clarified in the next reporting period promptly, so that the ICA can carry out its mandate effectively.” He expected that VW all the information he considered necessary, in a timely manner. The automaker says improvements. The annual report is the first of three planned Reports.
Thompson to view Volkswagen on the Finger, in order not to repeat the misconduct, as in the diesel scandal. For this, he has assembled a Team of approximately 60 specialists, which the car maker has to make, on Request, with all necessary documentation. The Monitor monitors whether the wolf Burger to comply with the with the US authorities closed comparison and the promised reforms to be implemented.
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“Accidentally informed”
By the US authorities in the case of Volkswagen used Larry Thompson has in detail found two violations of the regulations. Volkswagen have reported these violations, Thompson.
According to the information provided by Hiltrud Werner, Volkswagen Board of management for integrity and legal Affairs, has not been included in a list of five questions in connection with the annual employee survey “Accidentally” in the Manager’s manuals. In addition, had been overlooked, to inform ten days prior to the commencement of emission testing for the model year 2017, the environmental authority CARB in writing.
Thompson said that it was premature to say how far the company had come in the implementation of its obligations. According to Werner, in April, adopted the program “Together4Integrity is to be rolled out” by 2020, the other brands of the VW group. By 2025, all of its subsidiaries and around 650,000 employees are to be achieved.
Hiltrud Werner, and Larry Thompson at the presentation of the first interim report in Wolfsburg.
Delays and Redactions
At the time of the publication of the report, Thompson stressed at a press conference in Wolfsburg, Volkswagen is taking its concerns seriously. “There are a number of positive processes have been initiated.” Until the group has fulfilled all obligations to the U.S. Department of justice, with regard to integrity, Compliance and culture, but still had work to do. “We have not yet arrived.”
Thompson called on Volkswagen to provide all the information on a timely basis. Occasionally, he was with the reluctance for the Transmission of some information does not agree, it said in a on Monday published the first interim report of Thompson’s “diesel’s gate”.
The Americans complained in his report that the company had made, citing the attorney-client privilege and privacy Redactions in documents. Volkswagen says the improvements.
The diesel scandal, established integrity, and the right chair Werner made it clear that the initiated change in the corporate culture is going to deal with the group for many years. By 2020, they wanted to prolong the integrity program on all brands, and around 70 per cent of the workforce. “We have a Marathon ahead of us.”
VW: Up to at least 70,000 employees from the integrity program are achieved, “we have a Marathon ahead of us.”
VW is supposed to be “decent”
To questions about the causes of the diesel scandal, Thomson pointed to the ongoing investigations in the USA and in Germany. “This is not a list of my Responsibility.” He was not a detective, but responsible for VW to meet its obligations. He could not yet evaluate whether the initiated change is to be effective, said Thompson, the former Deputy U.S. attorney General.
To illustrate that Volkswagen take the change seriously, the 72-Year-old on the statements of consolidated financial boss Herbert Diess. This will make the Wolfsburg-based conglomerate that has been battling for nearly three years, with the consequences of the diesel scandal, “decent”. Volkswagen must be honest, open and truthful, had This been announced in may, before the shareholders.
A group under the constant supervision of
In the negotiations with the U.S. Department of justice, VW had added, with an exhaust gas information to the authorities and customers deceived for years to have the environmental law and justice disabled hurt. The criminal comparison is the volume of four billion euros.
Overall, the work-up of the world’s millions of exhaust gas manipulation VW costs so far, more than 27 billion euros.
dk/ul (dpa, rtr)