• Automotive company with a diverse portfolio of brands

• Prioritizes sustainability and technology to maintain its leadership in the industry

Scandal

• three college students uncovered Volkswagen’s diesel cheating through their research on conducting emissions testing on various diesel vehicles

• 2014

  • Scientists at the West Virginia University discover cheating at VM

• 2015

  • VM installed cheat devices. Admits that 11Million diesel cars have the software and the CEO at that time resigned amidst the scandal

  • CEO denies the involvement and blames software engineers during October and fired Employees during December

• 2016

  • Agrees to pay 14.7Billion dollar settlement

• 2017

  • Pleads guilty and more employees are charged and sent to jail

People Involved

• CEO: Martin Winterkorm was CEO of vokswagen between 2007-2015 agreed to pay the company 11.2Million Euro 13.7 million dollars

• Head of Development : Heinz- Jakob Neusser

• Emissions Specialists: Richard Dorenkamp

• Regulatory go between : Oliver schmidt

• Software engineer: James Robert Liang