The fraud charges against Martin Winterkorn had been standing for a long time - after some delays, the Braunschweig Regional Court has now approved it.
The emissions scandal at Volkswagen was exposed five years ago.
Now the fraud charge has been admitted.
The ex-VW boss is accused of this.
Braunschweig - The
Regional Court of Braunschweig
has
admitted
charges against the former
Volkswagen boss Martin Winterkorn
in the
diesel scandal
.
The
court announced on Wednesday
that there was sufficient suspicion against him “because of commercial and gang fraud”
.
There is an “overwhelming probability of conviction”.
Accordingly, it also sees a sufficient suspicion against four other defendants for commercial and gang
fraud in a unit of offense with tax evasion
in a particularly serious case as well as for other criminal offenses.
Ex-VW boss Winterkorn has to go to court over diesel scandal - damage of several hundred million euros?
According to the court, the allegations of fraud are about "that buyers of certain vehicles from the Volkswagen Group were deceived about their properties, in particular the use of a so-called disconnection device in the engine control software".
There is a
financial loss to
the buyer totaling several hundred million euros.
When the
trial would
begin remained open at first.
According to the information, the chamber first wants to discuss the process with those involved in the proceedings.
Then the negotiation dates should be set.