The former president of Audi has asked for his release

Berlin, July 19 (Prensa Latina) Former Audi executive director, Rupert Stadler, has appealed against the arrest warrant for which he has been detained since mid-June, announced today a judicial source.

The Munich court will now consider whether it accepts the appeal of Stadler, who has been questioned several times since his arrest on suspicion of fraud that links him to alleged manipulations in diesel engines, said a spokesman of the prosecution. According to the source, Stadler and another member of the brand's board of directors would be linked to the indirect forgery of documents aimed at evading environmental controls by marketing in the United States and Europe about 210,000 diesel vehicles with software Fraudulent

In February, Ulrich Weiss, former director of diesel engine development at Audi, appointed the board of directors as responsible for the fraud.

The scandal joins that of the Volkswagen group which will have to pay a billion euros for fraud. handling of gas emissions in diesel engines.

Also marketed in the United States, Cana da and other countries with more than 10 million vehicles with faulty software with regard to emissions into the atmosphere of pollutant gases have motivated the decision. According to official figures, this company exceeded in 2017 the three million 580 000 cars sold.

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