An internal investigation in Volkswagen demands compensation from former CEO

A Multiyear internal investigation into Dieselgate will help to get compensation from former CEO Martin Winterkorn and former Audi CEO Rupert Stadler, the Volkswagen Group indicated on Friday.

Above the both were assumed as massive financial crushers for the company and involved in emissions cheating scandal in the company’s opinions.

The law firm Volkswagen hired to perform the investigation covered more than 65 petabytes of data, including some 480 million documents.

About 1.6 million of those files were ‘identified as relevant, screened and reviewed,’ the German automaker says.

The law firm also performed 1,550 interviews and reviewed files from prosecutorial and judicial proceedings around the world that came as a result of the company’s actions.

Winterkorn resigned from running Volkswagen back in September 2015, almost immediately after news broke of the scandal.

Stadler was arrested in 2018 by German authorities, which caused Audi to push back the reveal of its first all-electric car, the E-Tron.