Winterkorn in the dock: Diesel trial in September. The court combines the allegations against him and sets almost 90 dates.
According to current planning, a verdict would be possible in 2025 - ten years after the affair became known. The diesel affair at Volkswagen was exposed in September 2015 and cost Winterkorn the executive chair at the Wolfsburg car manufacturer a few days later. The top manager resigned, but did not want this to be seen as an admission of complicity. He claimed that he had no knowledge of any illegal activity before the scandal becameknown.