2 days agoFormer VW chief risks 169 years in prison because of the “Dieselgate” scandal
Periskopi(9 years ago)
(9 years ago)Volkswagen's former chief and engineer, Oliver Schmidt, could be sentenced to prison because of the so-called <x0-> Dieselgate” scandal, by the US Detroit Court, Motor1 reports. Schmidt has been arrested trying to fly to Germany in January this year, and has been charged with 11 crimes, and if convicted, he could get [...]
Volkswagen's former chief and engineer, Oliver Schmidt, could be sentenced to prison because of the so-called <x0-> Dieselgate” scandal, by the US Detroit Court, Motor1 reports.
Schmidt has been arrested trying to fly to Germany in January this year, and has been charged with 11 crimes, and if convicted, he could receive sentences of up to 169 years in prison, Time.net broadcasts.
The US court has accused Schmidt of attempting to deceive US regulators by offering false reasons, despite the intention of deliberately cheating with US gas emissions, with the aim of allowing the VW to continue selling oil vehicles to the United States”.
It was also found that he was aware that “the reason for conflict with gas emissions was that the VW deliberately installed the fraudulent program in the US-based oil cars from 2009 to 2015”.
US prosecutors have collected over 4.3 million documents with more than 40 million pages as evidence of the charges.
Schmidt's guilty conditions are not clear in these documents for the time being.
He is the only one behind the bars of Volkswagen's seven accused chiefs on the issue, as his former colleagues are now found in Germany outside the jurisdiction of US laws.
