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Head of VW's Audi arrested in Germany over diesel scandal
German authorities arrested the head of Volkswagen's luxury arm Audi on Monday, the most senior company official so far to be detained over the carmaker's emissions test cheating scandal.
Munich prosecutors, who earlier this month widened their probe into Audi, said Rupert Stadler was being held due to fears he might hinder their investigation into the scandal, plunging Volkswagen into a leadership crisis.
News of the arrest comes as Volkswagen's (VW) new group CEO Herbert Diess is trying to introduce a new leadership structure, which includes Stadler, to speed up a shift toward electric vehicles in the wake of its "dieselgate" troubles.
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Audi CEO Arrested for Role in Volkswagen Diesel Emissions Scandal
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(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday June 18 2018, @11:17PM
It's not like this guy is so powerful either if he can be carted off to jail as a political football, in a country that really tries to avoid jailing people pre-trial.
If he were not politically vulnerable, flight risk would not have been held, since "where could somebody that powerful hide at?"