Automotive News: Key Ex-VW Official Told To Stay Home Or Face Arrest, Audi top management criticized in internal dossier
Key Ex-VW Official Told To Stay Home Or Face Arrest
A key former Volkswagen manager, indicted by the U.S., has been told to stay close to home in Germany or he may face arrest and extradition to the U.S..
A former Volkswagen official, Heinz-Jakob Neusser, has been advised to remain Germany because he is facing arrest and detention by U.S. authorities. “I have urgently advised my client not to leave Germany. Only here he is safe,” Annette Voges, his attorney, told the newspaper Bild in an article published Saturday.
According to another journal, Sueddeutsche Zeitung, U.S. officials issued international arrest warrants Thursday for five former VW managers who were at the center of the costly diesel-emissions scandal that continues to swirl around the carmaker. read more »
Audi top management criticized in internal dossier
Audi's executive board, including CEO Rupert Stadler, has been sharply criticized by company managers, the German weekly paper, Bild am Sonntag, reported on Sunday, citing an internal dossier.
The board had shown no signals of a fresh start, change or readiness for the future, the paper quoted the report as saying. Workers were frustrated with "disastrous" indecisiveness, according to the dossier.
Stadler has come under fire for how he has handled the fallout from parent company Volkswagen Group's diesel emissions scandal.
Munich prosecutors have been investigating Audi on suspicion of fraud and criminal advertising in the United States, where the Volkswagen scandal broke in September 2015. read more »
