Martin Winterkorn’s settlement comes as part of a €281 million package of compensation VW has claimedThe boss of Volkswagen during the dieselgate scandal is to pay the German carmaker €11.2 million in reparations. After years of wrangling, Martin Winterkorn, 74, who resigned only days after VW was caught cheating regulators in 2015 over the level of emissions of its diesel cars in America, has come to an €11.2 million settlement. Rupert Stadler, head at the time of the VW subsidiary Audi, has agreed to pay €4.1 million. Other group executives who have settled include Wolfgang Hatz, a director of Porsche, and Stefan Knirsch, a former Audi director. The scandal broke in America when VW was

Source: The Times June 09, 2021 16:08 UTC