Bavaria’s local authorities are the last in a long list to take legal action against Volkswagen about bthe cheating emissions scandal.
The German state will go to court with the Volkswagen Group next month in Brunswick, near the automotive giant’s headquarters, as AutomotiveNews writes, after the manufacturer’s shares plunged in the wake of Dieselgate, causing the local pension fund for civil servants to lose as much as €700,000 ($782,000).
Suing Volkswagen will make Bavaria the first of the country’s 16 federal states to take legal action against the Volkswagen Group, and since the storm that follows the cheating emissions scandal was predicted by the company, it has approximately $18 billion to cover the costs on a global scale, even if the amount could turn out to be insufficient, as analysts believe.
Outside Europe, New Mexico has become the first US state to sue Volkswagen, Audi and Porsche over Dieselgate, claiming that up to 10,000 cars were sold locally, equipped with the defeat device, while in South Korea, prosecutors who raided the Group’s Seoul offices arrested an exec. More recently, the Asian country’s authorities have issued a stop-sale on 32 models branded by VW, Audi and Bentley
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