The provincial court of Braunschweig has imposed prison sentences on the former director of Motor Development, Jens Hadler, and the high manager, Hanno Jelden. Two other members of the directive have received switch sentences for probation.
The Braunschweig Provincial Court On Monday, he sentenced two former guidelines of the German Autoconsortium Volkswagen Group in prison for fraud in the context of the scandal for the manipulation of the emission data of diesel engines and two others to change punishment for probation.
The former director of Motor Development, Jens Hadlerhas been sentenced to 4 and a half years in prison, while another high manager, Hanno JeldenHe was sentenced to 2 years and 7 months.
A former member of the Board of Directors of the Volkswagen Group, Heinz-Jakob Nosserhas been sentenced to 1 year and 3 months, too bad that has been switched for probation. A small manager, who has not been identified, has also received a fine of one year and ten months, has also switched.
The court has proven that the defendants were aware of the Millions of manipulation cases From emission data from diesel engines.
The manipulation is made By an illegal mechanism That made the temporary data much lower than the emissions that cars on the street made in the workshop tests.
The case of manipulations is one of the greatest scandals in the economic history of Germany.
The manipulations were discovered In 2015 For the American authorities and in total, the Volkswagen Group has had to pay more than 30 billion euros in compensation.
In April 2019The Braunschweig officer of Justice presented the first accusation that the four convicted person made to respond to the courts.
The scandal process, which was called ‘Disselgate’, lasted four years and is marked by Contrary statements of the engineers on the one hand and of the managers.
While engineers, accused of developing the system to manipulate the data, argued that they had warned managers that these could have legal consequences, managers argued that there had never been talk of something illegal or even the crime of fraud.
The convicted person this Monday They can appeal. There is still Four criminal processes Related to the diesel scandal with a total of 31 defendants on the couch.
The NGO Germany Environmental Action (Duh) He regretted that the first penalties in the diesel scandal ten years after what happened arrived and has criticized that the government has not taken measures that occur about 8 million vehicles that were manipulated to stay on the street.
Source: EITB
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