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- Former Audi boss Rupert Stadler was involved in the “Dieselgate” process.
- He can hope for a suspended sentence.
With a “yes” he confirmed a statement read by his defense attorney before the Munich Regional Court. In it, Stadler admitted wrongdoing.
This makes Stadler the first member of the VW Group Board of Management to have admitted in court to the allegation of fraud through omission in the diesel scandal. The Economic Criminal Court had promised the 60-year-old a suspended sentence if he made a comprehensive confession and paid 1.1 million euros.
The public prosecutor’s office has already approved the arrangement proposed by the court. Stadler had announced his confession at the beginning of May, but stipulated that he had time to prepare. Now he made his announcement come true.
The court threatened imprisonment
Stadler had protested his innocence for years and initially did not move away from it. The turning point came at the end of March, when the court made it clear that Stadler would have faced imprisonment without a confession.
After the confession, the process, which has been ongoing since September 2020, could soon come to an end.
dpa/black;sibl
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