Sunday, March 13, 2016

Does VW destroyed evidence? – tagesschau.de

New allegations in the VW exhaust scandal: The group is said to have destroyed evidence in September 2015 even after learning of the exhaust manipulations. That’s according to NDR, WDR and BR in the application of a redundant VW employee in Michigan forth.

By Peter Hornung, NDR

A former VW employees accuses the company to have destroyed evidence in September 2015 after learning of the exhaust manipulations. had the time employed by the US subsidiary of Volkswagen IT manager to search from NDR, WDR and “Süddeutsche Zeitung”, while working at the VW data center in Michigan apparently trying to prevent are cleared against an administrative order data there.

data deleted illegally?

The staff was his claims to be released in early December without notice because his employer be assumed that he the environmental Protection agency, wanted to inform the US Justice Department and the FBI. If a court in the US state of Michigan, he handed last Monday a lawsuit. The report describes the former employees that the IT head of VW subsidiary have ignored on 18 September 2015 the date of known exhaust scandal, a statement of the US Department of Justice to immediately stop all routine data erasures. Data are still to early October therefore been deleted illegally.



Ex-employee claims damages

The IT department of the US subsidiary VW have furthermore prevents the engaged by the Supervisory internal investigators get full access to the computer systems. The former employees also accused in its action, the US subsidiary of Volkswagen and the CIO of the company personally to have violated the law of the State of Michigan for protecting so-called whistleblowers.

He had refused to take part in the destruction of evidence and obstruction of justice and wanted the law violations reported to the authorities. He asks his former employer now damages. A VW spokesman declined to comment on the case. Volkswagen expresses his “labor law differences are generally not”.

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