VW CEO was told about emissions crisis a year before admitting to cheat scandal
by Rupert Neate from Environment | The Guardian on (#15T7K)
- Then-CEO Martin Winterkorn was sent memo detailing emissions figures
- Volkswagen installed illegal 'defeat device' in US cars to trick regulators
Volkswagen's chief executive was told about the company's illegal emissions crisis more than a year before it admitted it was systematically cheating on US regulators tests.
The German company admitted on Wednesday that its former CEO Martin Winterkorn was, in May 2014, sent a memo detailing how some VW cars were producing up to 35 times more nitrogen oxide emissions than allowed.
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