BBCNEWS Business Briefing December 7, 2017
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...
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