vw ceo was told about emissions crisis a year before admitting to cheat scandal /

Then-CEO Martin Winterkorn was sent memo detailing emissions figuresVolkswagen installed illegal ‘defeat device’ in US cars to trick regulators
Volkswagen’s chief executive was told approximately the company’s illegal emissions crisis more than a year before it admitted it was systematically cheating on US regulators tests. The German company admitted on Wednesday that its former CEO Martin Winterkorn was,in May 2014, sent a memo detailing how some VW cars were producing up to 35 times more nitrogen oxide emissions than allowed. Continue reading...

Source: theguardian.com