作者 : 安东尼·阿拉尼兹

上个月,奥迪前首席执行官施塔德勒Rupert Stadler承认卷入了柴油门丑闻,以避免被判入狱。今天,慕尼黑一家法院对此案做出了判决,对斯塔德勒判处100多万欧元的罚金,同时判处他一年零九个月的缓刑。

此外，当斯塔德勒在五月份同意认罪的时候,他还同意支付一笔罚金,而检察官希望这笔罚金高达200万欧元。然而,法官决定他只需支付110万欧元(按今天的汇率计算120万美元)。 当局于2018年逮捕斯塔德勒。自2020年以来,他因在2015年9月首次出现的丑闻中扮演的角色而接受审判。

当时,美国环境保护署宣布发现大众汽车违反了《清洁空气法》。到2016年11月才发现奥迪这家德国汽车制造商利用软件规避美国对其柴油车的排放测试。

斯塔德勒是第一位因丑闻被判刑的大众董事会成员。然而,其他雇员本周也被判刑。法官对前奥迪执行官哈兹和一名工程师做出了判决,也对两人处以罚款和缓刑。悬而未决的案件包括针对大众前老板马丁温特霍恩Martin Winterkorn和其他前大众经理的案件。

事实也证明,这起丑闻对汽车制造商来说代价高昂。大众集团出售其有缺陷的车辆的行动导致其在美国和其他国家被罚款数十亿美元。韩国最近对奥迪、宝马、梅赛德斯-奔驰和大众的罚款是因为 共同欺骗国家的排放标准 .

奥迪正在竭尽全力将丑闻抛在身后,即使落后于竞争，也将其推向电动汽车。大众集团首席执行官奥利弗•布卢梅Oliver Blume上周表示,他希望加速该品牌的电动汽车开发,该品牌已经面临"严重的软件问题",而且比奥迪还麻烦重。明年,公司将推出采用新平台和2025年的最后一辆燃油动力汽车的时候，推出纯电Q6 E-Tron 。

资料来源: 路透社

原文

Former Audi CEO Fined $1.2M, Gets Suspended Sentence For Dieselgate Role

He agreed to confess to his involvement in the scandal last month.

Jun 27, 2023 at 5:54pm ET

By: Anthony Alaniz

Last month, former Audi CEO Rupert Stadler confessed to his involvement in the Dieselgate scandal in order to avoid receiving a prison sentence. Today, a Munich court handed down a verdict in the case, fining Stadler for over one million euros while giving him a suspended sentence of one year and nine months.

When Stadler agreed to confess in May, he had also agreed to pay a fine that Prosecutors had wanted to be as high as €2 million. However, the judge determined he would only have to pay €1.1 million ($1.2 million at today’s exchange rate). Authorities arrested Stadler in 2018, who has been on trial since 2020 for his role in the scandal that first emerged in September 2015.

That’s when the US Environmental Protection Agency announced it had discovered that Volkswagen had violated the Clean Air Act. It wouldn’t be until November 2016 that the agency implicated Audi. The German automaker used software to circumvent US emissions tests on its diesel vehicles.

Stadler is the first Volkswagen board member sentenced for the scandal. However, other employees were also sentenced this week. Judges handed verdicts to former Audi executive Wolfgang Hatz and an engineer for their involvement, also subjecting the pair to fines and suspended sentences. Pending cases include those against former VW boss Martin Winterkorn and other former VW managers.

The scandal has also proven costly for the automaker. Volkswagen Group’s actions have led to it being fined billions in the US and other countries where it sold its defective vehicles. South Korea recently fined Audi, BMW, Mercedes-Benz, and Volkswagen for colluding to cheat the country’s emissions standards.

Audi is doing all it can to put the scandal behind it with its push into electric vehicles even as it lags behind the competition. VW Group CEO Oliver Blume said last week that he wants to speed up EV development for the brand, which has faced “severe software problems” and plagued more than Audi. Next year, the company will launch the Q6 E-Tron while riding on a new platform and its last combustion-powered car in 2025.

Source: Reuters