Exhaust affair: US lawyers rich Sammeklage against VW a – Tagesspiegel

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In the US, the legal battle against the VW group begins. Ten managers are personally responsible – also CEO Matthias Müller.

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“Volkswagen’s illegal conspiracy originated from greed and ambition, the global auto market to dominate at any cost. “with these harsh allegations pull US attorneys in the legal battle against the VW Group. The class action scripts were filed on Monday in San Francisco at the District Court. The 22 lawyers are talking about one of the “most brazen corporate crime in history”. Your class actions bundle the claims of all affected in the US through the exhaust manipulation consumers.

A VW spokesman said that the Group took the complaints to the attention. Your content will now be evaluated internally, but an opinion can not exist, he said, referring to the ongoing process. In addition to VW CEO Matthias Müller, his predecessor Martin Winterkorn, Audi CEO Rupert Stadler and Bosch CEO Volkmar Denner aims the action on the US chiefs of Audi and Porsche and the former VW engineers Ulrich Hackenberg and Wolfgang Hatz. Then there is the US head of VW, Michael Horn

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Müller, a “lieutenant” of Winterkorn

Müller is alleged to have benefited in a big way from the exhaust-fraud by which the VW’s market share had been illegally raised. The current CEO was as Porsche CEO a longtime “lieutenant” of Winterkorn, according to the lawsuit. Under the Müller affected by the scandal Porsche Cayenne Diesel had been published. He was either accomplices or disregarded the offense reckless, they say.
VW had to fraud allegations, the public made the US Environmental Protection Agency EPA on 18 September, given manipulation on a grand scale in emissions testing. The US Justice Department has therefore submitted in January a civil action on behalf of the EPA against the Group – alone here threatens theoretically a penalty of up to 46 billion dollars the equivalent of about 42 billion euros

mammoth method. 500 civil actions

over 500 civil lawsuits by US consumers were bundled in December in Northern California, in order to simplify the mammoth process. Behind the merged class actions are motorists and dealers who see themselves deceived. In addition, car dealerships claim damages. Since VW had its supposedly environmentally friendly “clean diesel” technology aggressively marketed, it would reduce their real selling clean cars, they argue.

VW is repeatedly pressurized. The Wolfsburg have not be able to agree to almost 600 000. affected cars with the US authorities on a plan to eliminate the manipulation programs. To appease US customers, the Group distributed shopping vouchers and granted free breakdown service. In addition, VW has the US star attorney Kenneth Feinberg commissioned to develop an amicable solution to the settlement of disputes. dpa