VW Facilities, Worker Homes Raided in Diesel Investigation
- Simultaneous raids started early in the morning on Thursday
- Raids at carmaker's Wolfsburg facilities lasted for hours
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Police and prosecutors swooped in on Volkswagen AG facilities and private homes on Thursday in a dawn raid to gather evidence about who was behind the carmaker’s decision to cheat on diesel emissions tests.
Three prosecutors and some 50 state criminal investigators searched the carmaker’s factories and employees’ homes starting in the early morning and continuing through the afternoon in Wolfsburg, its headquarters city, and elsewhere, said Birgit Seel, a senior prosecutor in the German state of Lower Saxony. Investigators took documents and electronic media, and it may take several weeks to review the material, Seel said. She didn’t identify employees whose homes were searched.