a parliamentary investigation that he had not known about the intentional cheating and deception there is mounting evidence that he did know about it before the scandal broke in september twenty fifteen. so it s only in july two thousand and fifteen a senior executive is said to have spoken to him to call him on the phone and told him we ve been cheating in the u.s. the same month a lawyer for the company says he talked of into cohen about the cheat software and how best to pursue damage control even than the current public prosecutors in germany are also investigating him to call on suspicion of fraud and market manipulation and a major sunday newspaper is reporting that v.w. is considering suing him for damages under german law executives can be held responsible for losses whether they knew about misconduct at the time or not if oversight was unduly lax. and in formula one driver for