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Originally Posted by HarmanKardon
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--- Winterkorn resigns.
--- The Green Party claims, that the German Government was informed about the manipulations. If this would be true, it would be MEGA COOL!
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From what I read, there's one Green who "assumes" the government knew.
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"There is obviously a system of fraud and lies," Oliver Krischer, a Greens party lawmaker who had earlier pursued this issue with the government, told journalists. "I assume that the minister was informed that such manipulative devices were used."
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I wouldn't jump to any conclusions yet but, having said that, all bureaucracies are corrupt and no counrty is immune to the sort of "regulatory capture" we see in the US. The Transport Ministry must have known that the cheat technology existed since US manufacturers had been caught using it. If questions had been raised about VW, they would have been guilty of negligence at the very least if they hadn't investigated.