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15 Apr 2019, 11:12 am by Xi Lucy Shi
German prosecutors on Monday charged former Volkswagen CEO Martin Winterkorn and four others with fraud, unfair competition and breach of trust in connection with the company’s massive, multi-year effort to cheat on diesel emissions testing. [read post]
23 Sep 2015, 8:51 am by Megan Geuss
(credit: Sean Gallup / Getty Images) Martin Winterkorn, the CEO of Volkswagen Group, resigned today amid a scandal involving the emissions control systems on Volkswagen and Audi diesel vehicles. [read post]
29 Sep 2015, 5:38 pm by CrimProf BlogEditor
From Jurist: The Braunschweig public prosecutor's office [official website, in German] opened acriminal investigation [press release, in German] Monday of former Volkswagen CEO Martin Winterkorn [Forbes profile], following accusations that the company cheated on government emissions tests by manipulating exhaust... [read post]
9 Jan 2012, 4:19 pm by Brian Baxter
Volkswagen CEO Martin Winterkorn announced Monday that a proposed union with fellow German automaker Porsche isn't possible because of legal obstacles and tax issues that have cropped up since the companies announced plans to merge in May 2009. [read post]
3 May 2018, 4:48 pm by Megan Geuss
Enlarge / Martin Winterkorn looks on during the FC Bayern Muenchen Annual General Assembly at Audi-Dome on November 24, 2017 in Munich. [read post]
8 Mar 2019, 8:54 am
., and former Chief Executive Officer Martin Winterkorn with violating the antifraud provisions of the federal securities laws. [read post]
1 Oct 2015, 10:18 am by Anne Wallace, Esq.
Yes, you could say that Martin Winterkorn, former CEO of Volkswagen, has had a couple of very bad weeks. [read post]
5 May 2018, 10:00 am by JURIST Staff
Here's the domestic legal news we covered this week: The US Department of Justice (DOJ) [official website] on Thursday unsealed an indictment [charges, PDF] against former Volkswagen (VW) [corporate website] CEO and chairman of the management board Martin Winterkorn on charges of fraud and conspiracy arising from the company's diesel emission-cheating scandal. [read post]
28 Sep 2015, 8:32 am by Brittany Felder
[JURIST] The Braunschweig public prosecutor's office [official website, in German] opened a criminal investigation [press release, in German] Monday of former Volkswagen CEO Martin Winterkorn [Forbes profile], following accusations that the company cheated on government emissions tests by manipulating exhaust valves. [read post]
4 May 2018, 8:51 am by Kenneth Hall
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) [official website] on Thursday unsealed an indictment [charges, PDF] against former Volkswagen (VW) [corporate website] CEO and chairman of the management board Martin Winterkorn on charges of fraud and conspiracy arising from the company's diesel emission-cheating scandal. [read post]
11 Mar 2014, 4:53 pm by Sabrina I. Pacifici
 “The car must not become a data monster,” Martin Winterkorn said, at the start of the CeBit trade show in Germany. [read post]
16 Jan 2016, 12:24 pm by Caesar and Napoli, P.C.
CEO Martin Winterkorn resigned in the immediate wake of the scandal, and 9 VW executives were suspended. [read post]
29 Jul 2019, 7:00 am by Race to the Bottom
On March 14, 2019, the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) charged Volkswagen AG,two of its subsidiaries, and its former CEO, Martin Winterkorn, with fraud in connection with a 2015 scandal commonly known as “dieselgate. [read post]
20 Jun 2016, 2:45 pm by CrimProf BlogEditor
From The New York Times: FRANKFURT — The investigation into Volkswagen’s vast emissions scandalreached the top echelon of management for the first time after German prosecutors said on Monday that they were looking into the carmaker’s former chief executive and... [read post]
26 Sep 2019, 7:05 am by Patrick Eckerd
German prosecutors have filed charges against Volkswagen CEO Herbert Diess, Chairman Hans Dieter Pötsch and former CEO Martin Winterkorn, according to a statement Tuesday. [read post]
21 Jul 2019, 5:28 pm by Glancy Law
The Securities and Exchange Commission recently charged Volkswagen and former chief executive officer Martin Winterkorn with investor fraud for allegedly lying about the cheating scandal. [read post]
23 Sep 2015, 12:00 pm by Kelly Phillips Erb
(Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images) The fallout from the diesel emissions cheating scandal at Volkswagen continued today with Martin Winterkorn tendering his resignation as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) even as he took responsibility for what he called “irregularities. [read post]
10 Jun 2021, 3:01 pm by Kevin LaCroix
Volkswagen, several former executives –including Martin Winterkorn, the former Chair of the company’s Board of Management–  and the company’s D&O insurers have reached an agreement to settle damages claims the company asserted against the executives relating to the company’s “Dieselgate” scandal. [read post]
14 Mar 2019, 10:26 pm by Mark Astarita
The Securities and Exchange Commission today charged Volkswagen AG, two of its subsidiaries, and its former CEO, Martin Winterkorn, for defrauding U.S. investors, raising billions of dollars through the corporate bond and fixed income markets while making a series of deceptive claims about the environmental impact of the company's "clean diesel" fleet.According to the SEC's complaint, from April 2014 to May 2015, Volkswagen issued more than $13 billion in bonds… [read post]