{"id":9547,"date":"2016-11-06T08:01:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-06T16:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/vw-chairman-now-included-in-german-prosecutors-volkswagen-emissions-probe\/"},"modified":"2016-11-06T08:01:00","modified_gmt":"2016-11-06T16:01:00","slug":"vw-chairman-now-included-in-german-prosecutors-volkswagen-emissions-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/vw-chairman-now-included-in-german-prosecutors-volkswagen-emissions-probe\/","title":{"rendered":"VW Chairman Now Included In German Prosecutor&#039;s Volkswagen Emissions Probe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-style:italic;font-size:16px\">By  <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thetwo-way\/2016\/11\/06\/500908403\/german-prosecutors-vw-emissions-probe-now-includes-carmakers-chairman?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=business\">Bill Chappell<\/a><\/span>  <\/p>\n<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thetwo-way\/2016\/11\/06\/500908403\/german-prosecutors-vw-emissions-probe-now-includes-carmakers-chairman?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=business\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2016\/11\/06\/gettyimages-549331065_wide-27a4040ab3e5f43c621722509b129fd8c60ab2ff-s1100-c15.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><button>Enlarge this image<\/button><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>VW Chairman Hans Dieter P\u00f6tsch, left, seen here with his predecessor Martin Winterkorn, has been at Volkswagen since 2003. <strong>ullstein bild\/ullstein bild via Getty Images<\/strong> <strong>hide caption<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>toggle caption<\/strong><\/div>\n<p><span>ullstein bild\/ullstein bild via Getty Images<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The public prosecutor&#8217;s office looking into Volkswagen&#8217;s diesel emissions scandal in Germany has widened the investigation to include Chairman Hans Dieter P\u00f6tsch, who was VW&#8217;s chief financial officer when its cars were built to fool emissions tests.<\/p>\n<p>The news comes more than one year after P\u00f6tsch was named chairman; last December, he acknowledged that the emissions cheating had <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thetwo-way\/2015\/12\/10\/459195558\/volkswagen-chairman-says-emissions-cheating-sprang-from-chain-of-errors\">stemmed from a &#8220;chain of errors&#8221; in the company<\/a> rather than from the actions of a group of rogue engineers.<\/p>\n<p>P\u00f6tsch was Volkswagen&#8217;s chief financial officer from 2003 to 2015 \u2014 a period that encapsulates the company&#8217;s development of cheating devices that could fool U.S. emissions tests on diesel engines. The Environmental Protection Agency&#8217;s <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.epa.gov\/vw\">list of affected model years<\/a> runs from 2009 to 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Volkswagen announced the new development Sunday, saying that despite the Braunschweig public prosecutor&#8217;s move, the company &#8220;reaffirms its belief that the Volkswagen Board of Management duly fulfilled its disclosure obligation under German capital markets law.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div><span>NPR thanks our <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/about-npr\/186948703\/corporate-sponsorship\">sponsors<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<aside>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/\">Let&#8217;s block ads!<\/a><\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/fivefilters\/block-ads\/wiki\/There-are-no-acceptable-ads\">(Why?)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source:: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thetwo-way\/2016\/11\/06\/500908403\/german-prosecutors-vw-emissions-probe-now-includes-carmakers-chairman?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=business\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"VW Chairman Now Included In German Prosecutor&#039;s Volkswagen Emissions Probe\" rel=\"nofollow\">http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thetwo-way\/2016\/11\/06\/500908403\/german-prosecutors-vw-emissions-probe-now-includes-carmakers-chairman?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=business<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"ftpimagefix\" style=\"float:left\"><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thetwo-way\/2016\/11\/06\/500908403\/german-prosecutors-vw-emissions-probe-now-includes-carmakers-chairman?utm_medium=RSS&amp;utm_campaign=business\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/media.npr.org\/assets\/img\/2016\/11\/06\/gettyimages-549331065_wide-27a4040ab3e5f43c621722509b129fd8c60ab2ff-s1100-c15.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<div><button>Enlarge this image<\/button><\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>VW Chairman Hans Dieter P\u00f6tsch, left, seen here with his predecessor Martin Winterkorn, has been at Volkswagen since 2003. <strong>ullstein bild\/ullstein bild via Getty Images<\/strong> <strong>hide caption<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>toggle caption<\/strong><\/div>\n<p><span>ullstein bild\/ullstein bild via Getty Images<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The public prosecutor&#8217;s office looking into Volkswagen&#8217;s diesel emissions scandal in Germany has widened the investigation to include Chairman Hans Dieter P\u00f6tsch, who was VW&#8217;s chief financial officer when its cars were built to fool emissions tests.<\/p>\n<p>The news comes more than one year after P\u00f6tsch was named chairman; last December, he acknowledged that the emissions cheating had <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/thetwo-way\/2015\/12\/10\/459195558\/volkswagen-chairman-says-emissions-cheating-sprang-from-chain-of-errors\">stemmed from a &#8220;chain of errors&#8221; in the company<\/a> rather than from the actions of a group of rogue engineers.<\/p>\n<p>P\u00f6tsch was Volkswagen&#8217;s chief financial officer from 2003 to 2015 \u2014 a period that encapsulates the company&#8217;s development of cheating devices that could fool U.S. emissions tests on diesel engines. The Environmental Protection Agency&#8217;s <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.epa.gov\/vw\">list of affected model years<\/a> runs from 2009 to 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Volkswagen announced the new development Sunday, saying that despite the Braunschweig public prosecutor&#8217;s move, the company &#8220;reaffirms its belief that the Volkswagen Board of Management duly fulfilled its disclosure obligation under German capital markets law.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div><span>NPR thanks our <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/about-npr\/186948703\/corporate-sponsorship\">sponsors<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<aside>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/blockads.fivefilters.org\/\">Let&#8217;s block ads!<\/a><\/strong> <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/fivefilters\/block-ads\/wiki\/There-are-no-acceptable-ads\">(Why?)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/associatednews.info\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}