The VW car
giant's HQ in Germany was raided on Thursday Oct 08,2015 in a move that drastically
raises the stakes in the ongoing emissions scandal.
Officials
swarming into the vast Wolfsburg plant is being interpreted as a sign
that the company has been less than cooperative with authorities over
the fraud which may end up breaking it.
The raids were carried out by prosecutors supported by police and officials of the LKA - Germany's equivalent of America's FBI.
Files
and computer data were seized, understood to be in connection with just
who ordered the fitting of emissions-cheating software to millions of
vehicles sold around the world
Note
More than 11 million vehicles worldwide have been fitted with software designed to cheat emissons tests which was only ever meant for experimental purposes
Unknown persons at VW greenlighted a decision to install this software in vehicles to cheat the emissions testing in the USA which is more stringent than in Europe.
An estimated 500,000 of the tampered vehicles were sold in America between 2009 and 2015
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