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South Korea Indicts VW Official for Falsifying Emission Data
South Korean prosecutors in Seoul say they have indicted a local Volkswagen AG executive on charges of manipulating exhaust emission and vehicle noise data.
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South Korean prosecutors in Seoul say they have indicted a local Volkswagen AG executive on charges of manipulating exhaust emission and vehicle noise data.
The executive, identified only as Mr. Yoon, was arrested in June. He is charged with falsifying hundreds of reports on VW Group vehicles sold in Korea over the past six years. The arrest followed a raid on VW’s Korean offices in May.
Prosecutors tell reporters they plan to question other VW officials, including VW Korea chief Johannes Thammer about forged certification documents.
Last November the government ordered VW to recall more than 125,000 diesel-powered Audi and VW models in the country that are among 11 million VW admits it rigged to evade emission laws. Korea’s Ministry of Environment says it will rule later this month whether to block the sale of 32 VW Group models whose regulatory certifications had been falsified.
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