The US Justice Department is weighing up criminal wire fraud charges against General Motors, over the company's failure to recall vehicles equipped with faulty ignition switches - that's according to the Wall Street Journal.
The newspaper says US prosecutors haven't yet made a final decision but hope to reach a settlement with the car maker by around the end of the summer.
Our US correspondent Lorna Shaddick reports.
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