Volkswagen pollution scandal causes police raid

This video from the USA says about itself:

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From Agence France Presse:

German Police Raid Scandal-Hit Volkswagen‘s Headquarters: Prosecutors

October 08, 2015

The EPA announced that Volkswagen was using a “defeat device” to side-step emission laws. Here’s what that means.

Berlin: German police raided auto giant Volkswagen‘s headquarters and other sites today, as part of an investigation into a massive pollution-cheating scandal engulfing the group.

“Today, in connection with the so-called emissions scandal, raids were carried out at Volkswagen in Wolfsburg and other locations,” prosecutors from the state of Lower Saxony said in a statement.

Volkswagen uses emissions crisis to impose deep cuts: here.

Volkswagen, Europe’s biggest car maker, illegally manipulated test results for exhaust emissions to a far greater extent than the company’s management previously admitted. The deceit involved not merely the actions of a few software engineers and technicians, but a systematic fraud overseen by a large proportion of the top management: here.

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