Rupert Stadler doesn’t confess, he allows himself to be confessed. A few dry sentences, read by his defense attorney Ulrike Thole-Groll. That he, Stadler, “did not succeed in solving the diesel crisis in the group”, that “more care was required” in his work as head of Audi, that he “didn’t know, but when possible and therefore “accepted” the fact that cars with dirty diesel engines and fraudulent software were sold as clean for years. The whole thing takes just four minutes.
Audi trial: The confession of Rupert Stadler – economy
