Diesel scandal: Audi-fine of 800 million euros Audi pays million fine

The Prosecutor's office München II against Audi's current offence proceedings in the diesel scandal has been ended with the adoption of a Bußfor the decision in Höhe of 800 million euros. The car maker has this on 16. October 2018 accepted and bestätigt!

A Buß über 800 million euros, terminated the misdemeanour proceedings in the diesel scandal against Audi, which was brought by the public Prosecutor's office München II. The sum is made up of fünf-million-Euro für fahrläadversity vinegars order and 795 million Euro as Poweröcreation of economic benefits. The Bavarian car maker waived on appeal, accepted the punishment and ended the procedure. The investigations of the Prosecutor's office came to the conclusion that it had come to supervision violations in the organizational unit "exhaust Service / admission units" in the Prüfung of regulatory conformityät of vehicles. The Prosecutor sees this as one of the causes that from 2004 to 2018, certain of Audi developed a V6 and V8 diesel engines not the regulatory requirements are satisfied. Darüber have it is not detected that the VW-developed Diesel the types of EA were equipped 288 Gen3 in North America and the EA 189 in the world with a device config—single-level Software. The Audi-Bu’money in the diesel scandal will have an impact on the result of the VW group, as the carmaker announced. In which Höhe, is currently unclear. Also, the Porsche Holding company as the majority owner of Volkswagen is expecting less profit. After taxes, consolidated earnings are now between 2.5 and 3.5 billion euros. The margin will be reduced according to the Porsche SE to 900 million euros. More to the topic: The chronology of the VW scandal News Diesel scandal: VW-fined over a billion euros  VW has paid the fine