German prosecutors expect the first rulings this year in legal cases resulting from the Volkswagen (VW) emissions scandal, Automobilwoche magazine reported on Saturday.
“We hope to conclude lawsuits ... this year,” Klaus Ziehe, spokesman for the Braunschweig state prosecutors office in Lower Saxony state, where Volkswagen is headquartered, was quoted as saying by the magazine.
Ziehe said there were four lawsuits with 47 persons indicted, although these included double entries.
Only a handful of people had been targeted in the early stages after the diesel emissions test cheating scandal that has undermined the German car industry’s influence.
And clearing up the scandal will drag on beyond this year, said Hans Dieter Poetsch, head of VW’s supervisory board.
“There will not be a real final stroke for some time to come,” he said.
Poetsch also said that VW does not intend to publish a report of its own about the investigations alongside statements made by the US authorities, as it would be “unjustifiably risky to add a report of our own right now.”
Volkswagen would also remain quiet on the internal investigations undertaken by US law firm Jones Day it hired, a summary of whose findings was compiled in the form of a “statement of facts” for the US Department of Justice, as this had been pledged to the US authorities, he said.
Volkswagen filed a legal complaint with a Munich court on Wednesday, seeking to prevent Bavarian state prosecutors from using information seized during searches of Jones Day.
Source: Arab News
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