(ANSA-AFP) - BERLIN, JUN 9 - Berlin prosecutors said
Wednesday they have charged Volkswagen's former chief executive
Martin Winterkorn with making false statements to a
parliamentary committee over the automobile giant's
emissions-cheating "Dieselgate" scandal. "The public
prosecutor's office accuses the defendant of giving false
testimony on January 19, 2017, as a witness before the
'emissions' investigation committee," they said. Winterkorn
claimed to have learnt about illegal devices installed in VW
vehicles to trick emissions tests only in September 2015, when
he is believed to already be aware by May that year, they said.
The issue was also raised at a crisis meeting of Volkswagen
executives in July 2015, the statement said. Winterkorn resigned
in September 2015, a week after the diesel emissions scandal
broke. He is already facing trial in Germany on charges of
organised commercial fraud and serious tax evasion over the
case. (ANSA-AFP).
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