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Court Blocks Use of VW Diesel Evidence Seized in Law Office Raid
Germany’s Federal Constitutional Court has ruled that prosecutors cannot use materials about Volkswagen AG’s diesel emission cheating that were obtained during a raid on the company’s Jones Day law firm four months ago.
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Germany’s Federal Constitutional Court has ruled that prosecutors cannot use materials about Volkswagen AG’s diesel emission cheating that were obtained during a raid on the company’s Jones Day law firm four months ago.
The ruling reverses a regional court decision in May that said the search was legal. VW promptly appealed that ruling.
The mid-March seizures pertain to an investigation by Jones Day that exonerated the management board but found evidence of wrongdoing by some high-level VW executives. The company has described the raid as “unacceptable in every way.”
VW produced a summary of the Jones Day findings earlier this year to help reach a $4.3 billion settlement with the U.S. Dept. of Justice. But the company, which initially promised to release the full report, declared in May it would not do so. The full findings remain buried.
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