{"id":25825,"date":"2017-04-03T09:20:14","date_gmt":"2017-04-03T09:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=25825"},"modified":"2017-04-03T09:20:14","modified_gmt":"2017-04-03T09:20:14","slug":"german-prosecutors-expect-rulings-in-vw-scandal-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/business\/german-prosecutors-expect-rulings-in-vw-scandal-this-year.html","title":{"rendered":"German prosecutors expect rulings in VW scandal this year"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tGerman prosecutors expect rulings in VW scandal this year<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/span>
\n<\/h2>\n

\n\tGerman prosecutors expect the first rulings this year in legal cases resulting from the Volkswagen (VOWG_p.DE) emissions scandal, Automobilwoche magazine reported on Saturday.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\t"We hope to conclude lawsuits … this year," Klaus Ziehe, spokesman for the Braunschweig state prosecutors office in Lower Saxony state, where Volkswagen is headquartered, was quoted as saying by the magazine.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tZiehe said there were four lawsuits with 47 persons indicted, although these included double entries.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tOnly a handful of people had been targeted in the early stages after the diesel emissions test cheating scandal that has undermined the German car industry's influence.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tAnd clearing up the scandal will drag on beyond this year, VW's supervisory board head Hans Dieter Poetsch said in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on Saturday.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\t"There will not be a real final stroke for some time to come," he said.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tPoetsch also told the paper that VW does not intend to publish a report of its own about the investigations alongside statements made by the U.S. authorities, as it would be "unjustifiably risky to add a report of our own right now."<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tVolkswagen would also remain quiet on the internal investigations undertaken by U.S. law firm Jones Day it hired, a summary of whose findings was compiled in the form of a "Statement of facts" for the U.S. Department of Justice, as this had been pledged to the U.S. authorities, he said.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tVolkswagen filed a legal complaint with a Munich court on Wednesday, seeking to prevent Bavarian state prosecutors from using information seized during searches of Jones Day.<\/span><\/span><\/span>\n<\/p>\n

\n\tSource:- http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-volkswagen-emissions-prosecutors-idUSKBN1733CW<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\n\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t