The former CEO allegedly pointed early on possible exhaust manipulations in the United States. The discovery of a mail 2014 could now expose existing representations in the affair as false.
The former VW -Vorstandschef Martin Winterkorn said to have been informed early in our own Group for possible exhaust-manipulation in the USA. This was reported by Bild am Sonntag . The newspaper quoted from a VW underlay the May 2014 winter grain was then obtained. It was from “dramatically increased” nitrogen values for diesel vehicles the speech. It was reasonable to assume that the US authorities would investigate the VW-systems to determine whether a so-called Device Defeat will used. Among software for manipulating exhaust measurements is understood.
Volkswagen has the state of internal investigations recently declared the end of 2015, they had no evidence that management or supervisory board were involved in the exhaust affair. Winterkorn, who stepped down as CEO because of the affair in September 2015 denies any wrongdoing so far. These representations could through the files Fund at Volkswagen now lapsed.
Like the SZ learned on Sunday to the relevant document, an email to Winterkorn, has been discovered in the autumn of last year in the course of internal investigations at VW be. Winterkorn said to have been subsequently questioned by lawyers of the law firm Jones Day, inspect the exhaust affair on behalf of the supervisory board of VW, so. It is unclear whether the Supervisory Board has now informed about these specific acts Fund. A special committee of the supervisory body to investigate the affair exhaust is kept informed of the progress of their own investigations.
The supervisory board is headed by Hans Dieter Pötsch, a longtime associate of Winterkorn. Pötsch cared on the Management Board of the finances and moved to winter grain resignation at the head of the supervisory body. Pötsch has repeatedly asserted, “everything on the table, nothing is swept under the carpet”. Volkswagen did not respond to questions about the filing Fund, the charged Winterkorn on Sunday. A VW spokesman pointed out that the investigations were continuing.
Winterkorn did not comment because of the ongoing investigation also. The Mail on May 2014, the then-CEO Bernd Gottweis had received, the long time the Committee on Product Safety (APS) at VW initiated. That committee shall be a kind of in-house “Fire Department” and should discover and ward before major damage occurs potential risks at an early stage. Recalls for defects in vehicles are treated in the APS.
Because of the excessive emission levels in the US VW had almost 500 000. Car brought the end of 2014 in the workshops, to make changes to the software. The “Defeat Device” that turns the exhaust gas purification to the test and off on the road, but was not eliminated. As the US authorities nachhakten, VW was in the summer of 2015, the manipulations.
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