Prosecutors searched offices at the group’s headquarters and its engine plant in Upper Austria. The authorities in South Korea are investigating technical defects.
According to BMW, the Munich prosecutor’s office on Wednesday searched business premises at BMW’s headquarters and in Steyr in Upper Austria. The reason for this was a 2020 request for legal assistance from South Korean authorities over dozens of BMW car fires in South Korea in 2018, the Bavarian automaker said.
hidden flaws?
The Seoul prosecutor’s office recently filed a complaint against BMW Korea and employees there on suspicion of concealing technical defects and starting the recall too late, a BMW spokesperson in Munich said. The investigations by the Korean authorities against BMW AG were closed in May.
Extensive collaboration
The spokesperson emphasizes that the investigations never referred to the accusation of the use of inadmissible defeat devices. The BMW Group is fully cooperating with the authorities in Korea and with the Public Prosecutor of Munich I.
4400 employees in Steyr
4,400 employees work at the BMW engine plant in Steyr. According to the company, 393,700 diesel and 603,000 petrol engines were produced in 2020, including a quarter of all engines for hybrid powertrains.
Source: Krone
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