The first criminal judgments in the diesel scandal uncovered in Germany in 2015 have now been made. The Munich Regional Court sentenced former Audi CEO Rupert Stadler to a suspended prison sentence of one year and nine months. The chamber found him guilty of fraud on Tuesday.
The two co-accused – the former head of engine development and later Porsche board member Wolfgang Hatz and the engineer P. – received suspended sentences for fraud. The verdicts are not yet final.Ex-Audi boss: Sale stopped too lateHatz and the engineer P. had confessed to having taken care of the manipulation of diesel engines. In doing so, they complied with emission values on the test stand, but throttled the emission control on the road. Stadler, in turn, admitted that it was too late to stop the sale of manipulated cars. The suspended sentences are linked to the payment of high monetary conditions. The public prosecutor had already approved the suspended sentences for Stadler and P. as part of an agreement in the process, but in the case of Hatz demanded a prison sentence without probation.
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