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The judge described Oliver Schmidt as a key conspirator in this scheme to defraud the united states. Andrew plant reports. Oliver schmidt, once one of volkswagens top american employees, now sentenced to seven years in prison. A car manufacturer in a competitive market, vw admitted fitting around 11 million diesel cars with what is called a defeat device. It meant the cars could sense when they were running in the uniformed conditions of a testing lab and automatically reduced their emissions. Cheating a test the vehicles should never have passed. It meant that schmidt was able to certify that vw diesels complied with strict american standards and that meant boosting sales targeting environmentally conscious customers with supposedly cleaner cars. The scandal came to light in 2015. Oliver schmidt is the second employee sent to prison. A veteran vw engineer was given a0 months in august. Schmidt was arrested while on holiday in miami. But five more of the companys employees are wanted i

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