DIESELGATE: Audi Fires 4 Diesel Engineers Including Chief Of Engine Development For "Gross Breach Of Duty"

Audi, which has been caught up in parent Volkswagen Group's emissions-cheating scandal, has fired four engineers from its diesel division.

Audi's former chief of engine development, Ulrich Weiss, and the automaker's former head of emissions in the U.S., are among the engineers fired, Handelsblatt reported on Monday.

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TheSteve - 2/21/2017 1:42:56 PM

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As I predicted when Dieselgate first blew the lid, we're seeing scapegoating. We are being asked to believe that this fraud was committed by a handful of rogue engineers, who were acting in isolation, and that the parent company -- Volkswagen Audi Group (AKA "VAG") -- knew nothing, were, and are innocent. Criminal charges against VW executives in the US seems to hint that at least some elements of the US government don't believe that story.

As for Audi's former chief of engine development, Ulrich Weiss, the story says he has been "fired" but also specifies the details of that firing: He's on PAID leave for the past year and a half. Knowing what executives get paid, paid leave certainly does not sound like any form of hardship to me. You don't have to go to work, but the paychecks keep coming. Such punishment.

MDarringer - 2/21/2017 7:27:30 PM

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Yeah it was those damned underlings that did it all. No one at the top knew.