Berlin / Ingolstadt (dpa) - According to a report by the online business magazine "Business Insider", hundreds of thousands of documents on the diesel scandal have been destroyed at the Bavarian car manufacturer Audi.
The magazine reported on Sunday that this had already happened in autumn 2015 after the emissions fraud had become known to the group sister Volkswagen. It relies on a paper classified as "strictly confidential" by the US law firm Jones Day, which had internally investigated the exhaust gas scandal in the VW group.
An Audi spokesman said on request on Sunday: "The allegations are known and have been sufficiently investigated." But they are the subject of prosecutorial investigations, "about which we do not comment," he added.
Business Insider wrote that Jones Day's paper said 14 people from the Diesel group deleted files from their computers, external devices, and network drives. In addition, an indefinable amount of paper files had been shredded.
According to employees, panic prevailed in Ingolstadt after the allegations of exhaust gas manipulation became known on September 18, 2015. According to Jones Day, the affected Audi engineers sometimes used professional deletion software to prevent the data from being restored.
Business Insider report