The former head of Volkswagen’s luxury division Audi has pleaded guilty to charges tied to the automaker’s diesel emissions scandal.
Rupert Stadler, former CEO of German car manufacturer Audi, sits in a regional court room in Munich, Germany, Tuesday, May 16, 2023. Stadler plans to plead guilty in connection with the 'Dieselgate' emissions cheating scandal. This would make him the first CEO of the automotive industry to be convicted in the resulting trials.
Rupert Stadler answered “yes” to a statement read in court by his attorney that said Stadler admitted wrongdoing and regret for his failure to keep rigged cars off the market even after theStadler entered the plea under an agreement with the judge and prosecutors that provides probation instead of jail time and orders him to pay a 1.1 million euro fine in return for a thorough admission of guilt.
The software turned on emission controls when the cars were on test stands and turned them off when the cars were on the road. Thebut emitted many times the permitted level of nitrogen oxide, a pollutant that can harm people's health. The scandal cost Volkswagen more than $30 billion in fines and settlements and saw two U.S. executives sent to prison.
It pushed the entire auto industry away from reliance on diesel engines, which had been almost half the auto market in Europe, and helped accelerateFormer VW CEO Martin Winterkorn, who resigned in the wake of the 2015 EPA announcement, has been
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