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Dusseldorf According to Herbert Diess, VW CEO, Bernd Osterloh, chairman of the Group Works Council, now supports Rupert Stadler, the suspended Audi boss, who is in custody. "I was very surprised by the detention," Osterloh said in an interview with Handelsblatt. "For Mr. Stadler, the presumption of innocence is valid until proven otherwise." Now the investigating authorities are on the train. "
Stadler has been detained since the mid -June. The accusation Munich II has accused of misleading dealers and customers, even after the announcement of the diesel scandal in mid-September 2015, other vehicles handled were sold.
In addition, the 55-year-old man should have been acting on a party in the diesel scandal. Investigators felt that it was a danger of power failure, and then stopped it. In the meantime, his lawyer appealed to the Munich Regional Court
Stadler himself had testified on remand several times against prosecutors. Now he is silent. "Recently, he was no longer willing to provide information," said a spokeswoman for the prosecutor. Up to now, Stadler has always maintained his innocence
Osterloh was surprised by the preventive detention of Stadler. "I do not know what the prosecution has, I do not have access to the file." Similarly, VW's boss, Diess, had said something similar – Diess, who started to initiate the cultural change in the company in difficulty, had declared the investigation against Stadler "incomprehensible" .He experimented Stadler as a "problem solver".
However, the prosecution l '. Accused precisely of this role: Stadler would have solved the problem of strict regulation of emissions by fraud – in favor of better sales figures.
According to research from the Handelsblatt, the CEO of Audi has known at the latest in 2010 manipulations to the Adblue exhaust reducer fluid injection.This emerges from many presentations, which were also provided to him according to the agenda of the communications. Adblue neutralizes the toxic nitrogen oxides emitted by the Diesel engines In a US debt acknowledgment, Volkswagen had admitted that the injection had been inappropriately stopped to reach longer distances without having to refuel Adblue.
In addition, Stadler had apparently revised after the announcement of the diesel scandal in November 2015, along with other managers, a presentation to the US Environmental Protection Agency for disguise the manipulations that were disclosed
. speak publicly for Stadler – and in the case of Diess in amazing words. The new VW boss had said about Stadler, it was for him an Audi boss, "who has cleaned up a lot of things."
Against Diess himself are also under investigation, in this case by the Brunswick attorney. Just as former VW CEO, Martin Winterkorn, and Chairman of the Supervisory Board, Hans Dieter Pötsch, he is accused of having manipulated the market by informing shareholders too late of the possible consequences of the diesel scandal. . Diess commented, "I am at peace with this subject because I firmly believe that I have nothing to reproach myself with."
Osterloh also seems to be in line with Diess here. He sees him as the right man to bring about a change in the car manufacturer's culture, according to the boss of the company committee. "Yes, I think Mr. Diess can do it," said Osterloh. "Otherwise, we would not have elected unanimously on the board."
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