The Hanover public prosecutor’s office has once again expanded its investigation into a possible involvement of former top managers at Continental in the VW emissions scandal. In the meantime, the investigations were directed against four former top executives of the auto supplier, the prosecutors said on Wednesday. “Among other things, it is about the suspicion of aiding and abetting fraud,” said an investigator. It is suspected that Conti, with the knowledge of the managers concerned, delivered engine control units suitable for illegal defeat devices to Volkswagen. The affair surrounding the manipulation of diesel emissions values using deception software was exposed at VW in September 2015, but it goes back to the 2000s. Suspicions against seven engineers and two project managers had already led to raids at Continental. The long-standing CFO Wolfgang Schäfer recently had to resign.
VW exhaust scandal – investigation against Conti – economy
