German prosecutors press charges against former VW CEO Winterkorn

Published Mon, Apr 15 2019 7:08 AM EDT

Reuters

VW has had to recall hundreds of thousands of cars around the world over the diesel emissions cheating scandal.

Volkswagen Group CEO Martin Winterkorn arrives for the Volkswagen annual general shareholders' meeting on May 5, 2015 in Hanover, Germany.

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Prosecutors in the German city of Braunschweig said on Monday they were pressing criminal charges against former Volkswagen Chief Executive Martin Winterkorn in connection with the carmaker's manipulation of diesel emissions testing.

Four other executives are being charged, the prosecutors office said in a statement.

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