German prosecutor charges former Audi boss over diesel scandal

Source: Xinhua | 2019-08-01

In connection with the diesel emissions scandal, the Munich public prosecutor's office on Wednesday announced that it had brought charges against Rupert Stadler, the former boss of the German luxury carmaker Audi.
Stadler and three other defendants were accused of "fraud, indirect false certification and criminal advertising", according to the Munich public prosecutor.
Stadler was accused of having been aware of manipulations to diesel engines "by the end of September 2015 at the latest and nevertheless continuing to cause or not preventing the sale of affected Audi and Volkswagon vehicles", the German prosecution stated.
The three other defendants -- two former and one current Audi employee -- were accused of having designed engines for the German car brands Audi, Volkswagon and Porsche "whose controls were equipped with an inadmissible software function".