Winterkorn Missed VW Scandal Warning Signs in 2014 Memos
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Martin Winterkorn, the former Volkswagen AG chief executive officer famed for his obsessive attention to detail, missed warning signs preceding the biggest scandal in the carmaker’s history that led to his downfall.
That is the view that emerges from a four-page document Volkswagen released late on Wednesday that retraced key moments in the unfolding scandal. Winterkorn, forced to resign once the crisis became public in September, received two memos informing him of discrepancies in U.S. diesel emissions in 2014 and participated in a meeting that touched on the matter last summer, the automaker said in the statement.