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By Karin Matussek, Tom Schoenberg, David McLaughlin, and Andrew M Harris

January 9, 2017 at 2:41 PM UTC

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January 10, 2017 at 12:32 AM UTC

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Some of Volkswagen AG’s top executives may find it risky to leave Germany as U.S. prosecutors prepare to charge more company officials.

Oliver Schmidt, a VW executive, was arrested in Miami as he was returning to Germany from vacation and faces charges of misleading regulators about the automaker’s diesel-emissions cheating devices. Prosecutors are preparing to charge more high-level German-based executives in the case, a person familiar with the matter said.