US charges Ex-VW CEO with fraud over Dieselgate scandal

Winterkorn stepped down days after the scandal became public in 2015, and his charges were filed secretly in March and revealed today. He’s the highest-profile executive to be charged for Dieselgate thus far. Previously, Volkswagen alleged that a rogue engineer had been a mastermind of sorts uploading the software to 11 million vehicles. But Winterkorn’s …

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