Ex-Audi boss Rupert Stadler has admitted to his role in the 'dieselgate' scandalMUNICH - Ex-Audi CEO Rupert Stadler received a suspended sentence and a fine at the end of his"dieselgate" trial in Germany on Tuesday, making him the first high-ranking executive to be convicted over the emissions cheating scandal that rocked the car industry in 2015.
The 60-year-old admitted in May that he allowed vehicles potentially equipped with manipulating software to remain on sale even after learning of the scam. Volkswagen had always insisted that the diesel trickery was the work of a handful of lower-level employees acting without the knowledge of their superiors.But German prosecutors say Stadler, even after learning of the scam, allowed thousands more vehicles with defeat devices to be sold until early 2018.AFP | Tobias SCHWARZ
His co-defendant Wolfgang Hatz, a former Audi and Porsche manager, was handed a two-year suspended sentence and fined 400,000 euros. Volkswagen's former CEO Martin Winterkorn was also supposed to stand trial for fraud over the scandal, but his case has been indefinitely postponed due to his poor health.
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