Justice: Report: tackling diesel scandal in USA is for VW still … – THE WORLD

The cleanup of the exhaust scandal is Volkswagen in the US apparently cost than initially planned significantly more money. The cost of the envisaged court settlement had increased to around 15 billion dollars (13.5 billion euros), reported the US news agency Bloomberg on Monday (local time), citing two sources involved in the negotiations.

Even in the past week, a total of ten billion dollars (nine billion euros) was in these circles have been called. This sum also included payments to buyers of VW diesel vehicles, which are equipped with the Cheat software. Volkswagen has not recorded a provision of more than 16 billion euros to cope with the scandal.

A federal judge in San Francisco had the negotiating parties set a deadline to Tuesday to submit the final plan. For months, the Group negotiated with the US Justice Department and other plaintiffs settle out of court. In April, there was an agreement in principle, since then has been negotiating the details.

this convention concluded, but the legal problems of Wolfsburg in the US are not yet off the table. The by Judge Charles Breyer in San Francisco abzusegnende plan applies only to the 480,000 affected diesel vehicles with 2.0-liter engines. The also affected some 80,000 diesel cars with 3.0-liter engines are not covered.

Volkswagen wants to avoid trial on the allowances in the US, as they may amount to far higher costs for the Group. Parallel Volkswagen is coated in Germany and other countries because of the manipulation of the emission values ​​with lawsuits. Before the Landgericht Braunschweig Volkswagen was sued in November by nearly 300 shareholders to more than three billion euros.

Volkswagen had given in September after investigations in the US to have glossed over the emission values ​​for environmental testing of diesel vehicles. The forbidden software causes in the car that in testing a lower pollutant emission is measured, as it arises in normal operation.

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