A DNA analysis brings certainty: the body found in a burning car is the employee who is said to have secretly recorded explosive conversations at VW. Whether it is a suicide has not yet been conclusively clarified.
After the discovery of a corpse in a burning car in Rottorf (Helmstedt district) it is clear that it is the alleged in-house spy in the VW wiretapping affair. The DNA analysis showed that it was the owner of the vehicle, said prosecutor Julia Meyer. As Meyer further said, there are many indications of a suicide, but this has not been conclusively clarified.
The Braunschweig public prosecutor's office announced at the beginning of August that it was also investigating the circumstances of a possible arson attack on the man's house. Accordingly, the building is said to have caught fire in a small village in May and was completely destroyed.
The wiretapping, which was recently announced, involved confidential audio material from a VW working group. Before the group terminated all contracts with the supplier Prevent in March 2018, company representatives are said to have deliberated for a long time on how to deal with the company in the future. The former Volkswagen employee, now found dead, is said to have secretly recorded these conversations in 2017 and 2018 – the car manufacturer then filed a criminal complaint. Prevent, in turn, had no knowledge of the recordings, a spokesman for the group said.
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