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Exhaust gas measurement in a diesel vehicle from VW (archive image)
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The Braunschweig public prosecutor has indicted 15 other people in the investigation into the diesel scandal at Volkswagen.
Several executives of the VW Group and a supplier are affected, as Chief Public Prosecutor Klaus Ziehe said of the German Press Agency in Braunschweig.
The accused are accused of aiding and abetting fraud with tax evasion, aiding and abetting indirect false certification and criminal advertising.
Winterkorn also has to go to court
In this case, too, the Braunschweig Regional Court must decide whether to admit the indictment.
A court spokesman confirmed receipt of the files.
In the case of ex-CEO Martin Winterkorn and four other managers, the court has already approved the indictment for commercial and gang fraud, among other things.
The process was last postponed to September due to corona.
In two other NOx proceedings in the emissions scandal, the public prosecutor has charged 14 VW employees.
However, a decision has not yet been made on the opening of main proceedings.
The "Dieselgate" scandal was uncovered in September 2015 as a result of investigations by US environmental authorities and scientists.
Volkswagen had manipulated exhaust gas values in diesel engines with the help of software.
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