Tuesday, September 24, 2019

VW executives charged with stock market manipulation over emissions scandal


German prosecutors have charged Volkswagen's CEO Herbert Diess, Chairman Hans Dieter Poetsch and former Chief Exec Martin Winterkorn with stock market manipulation.

They're accused of failing to inform investors about the company's emissions cheating programme back in 2015.

As our correspondent Giles Gibson reports from Frankfurt, all three are contesting the charges

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