You probably thought the VW dieselgate scandal was just about over, right? Wrong. It’s been announced today the Federal Court in Australia has just ordered Volkswagen AG to pay a record AU$125 million fine. The fine was originally negotiated at AU$75 million following outcomes of investigations by the Australia Competition […]
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Volkswagen faces another lawsuit, sued by SEC: Dieselgate scandal
Volkswagen is in trouble again over its scandalous emissions-cheating ploy which was revealed in 2015. Now the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) are suing VW and former CEO Martin Winterkorn. The SEC is accusing the carmaker of “violating the antifraud provisions” of the federal laws. A civil complaint was submitted […]
Volkswagen sells thousands of illegal vehicles, issues recall – report
Volkswagen is in strife again for taking part in illegal activity. This time it seems the company may have sold up to around 17,000 pre-production vehicles to customers which were not approved by authorities for customer use. A company spokesperson confirmed to German business newspaper Handelsblatt that for years the […]
Audi fined $1.3 billion for V6, V8 diesel emissions violations
In another big blow to Volkswagen Group and its finances, Audi has just been slapped with a whopping 800-million-euro fine (about AU$1.3 billion). It was handed out by German prosecutors for emissions-related issues with its V6 and V8 diesel engines. More specifically, the huge fine is due to “deviations from […]
Volkswagen to fire more staff following dieselgate scandal – report
Volkswagen is preparing to cull a number of high-level employees as it recovers from the dieselgate scandal, according to reports. German press Handelsblatt and Bild am Sonntag are reporting the Volkswagen Group is planning on firing a handful of engineers and managers that have been implicated in the costly dieselgate […]
VW may recall 124,000 cars due to harmful materials
Volkswagen may be looking at another raft of recalls of its electric vehicles after cadmium – a carcinogenic metal – has been found in over 120,000 of its electric and hybrid vehicles, according to reports. The problem for Volkswagen are the levels of the heavy metal ‘cadmium’ that have been […]
Audi boss Rupert Stadler arrested in Germany; dieselgate
Audi CEO Rupert Stadler has been arrested by the Munich prosecutor’s office in Germany, to prevent a potential suppressing of evidence relating to the massive Volkswagen Group dieselgate scandal. Professor Stadler was arrested at his home in Ingolstadt early this morning, Munich prosectors said, following a search of his apartment […]
Former Volkswagen exec Oliver Schmidt sentenced to 7 years prison
Former Volkswagen executive Oliver Schmidt has been sentenced to seven years in prison in the US after he pleaded guilty to two felony charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States, and violating the Clean Air Act in relation to his involvement in the massive Volkswagen dieselgate emissions-cheating scandal. Schmidt […]