SAN FRANCISCO: Volkswagen AG’s former chief executive officer Martin Winterkorn was charged in the US in a deepening probe into the German automaker’s cheating on diesel emissions testing.
Winterkorn, who stepped down from his role as CEO days after the scandal became public, is accused of conspiring to defraud the US and violate the Clean Air Act. The March 14 indictment was unsealed by a Michigan federal court on Thursday.
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