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New legal problems may emerge for Elon Musk less than a month after the businessman agreed to resign his presidency of President Tesla and pay $ 20 million to the US Securities and Exchange Commission. after posting a deceptive tweet about the privacy of the company.
The new setback for Musk comes from the fact that the FBI has intensified its investigation into the production statement of the auto giant, the Federal Bureau of Information saying that the Wall Street Journal says the company could have deliberately set unrealistic production goals to attract investors,
In February 2017 Musk said to expect that Tesla reaches a production rate of 5,000 units weekly from the Model 3 sedan by December 2017 and 10,000 by the end of 2018. However, in reality, managed to produce only one weekly volume. of 2,425 vehicles during the last quarter of 2017.
After failing in its first production objectives ión, Tesla reduced expectations, but not enough to be able to satisfied. In November 2017, Musk said he expected to produce 5,000 units a week "probably during the month of March," an objective finally achieved with just three months late.
According to the newspaper, Tesla did not reach its target of 5,000 units per week until the summer of 2018, when 5,031 units were produced in the last week of June.
According to the Wall Street Journal, several former Tesla employees have already been invited to testify about the case. However, in response to the newspaper, the company stated that it was not aware of any official investigation although they admitted that at the beginning of the year they had provided documentation on their "public guide to the increased production of Model 3" at the US Department of Justice According to the company, the request was voluntary and the automaker had cooperated with the investigators. Tesla also rejected accusations that he was attempting to mislead investors by announcing exaggerated production targets.
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