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Audi exec suspended over diesel scandal

Mon, Sep 19 2016
So far, just one lower-level employee has plead guilty in the ongoing VW diesel scandal. Up high, the VW CEO when the scandal broke, Martin Winterkorn, resigned right after the news came out. Other executives have also quit or been suspended as well. Today, we learn that one more executive is feeling the heat a year into the scandal.

Stefan Knirsch, the head of technical development at Audi and Audi board member, is going to be suspended from his position this week because of his ties to the technology that VW Group used to cheat emissions tests. The German newspaper Bild Am Sonntag reports that Knirsch not only knew that the cheating software existed but also lied about it under oath.

Knirsch previously worked at Porsche and then Audi's electrification division. He left Audi's EV efforts behind in early 2015.

  • News Source: Reuters
  • Image Credit: REUTERS/Denis Balibouse/File Photo
  • Government/Legal
  • Green
  • Audi
  • Volkswagen
  • Diesel Vehicles
  • vw diesel scandal
  • audi diesel
  • diesel scandal

By Sebastian Blanco

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