Insiders Claim Imprisoned Audi CEO Is Now Damaged Goods, Even If Cleared Of Wrongdoing

Audi CEO Rupert Stadler, who is being held in prison in connection with parent Volkswagen AG's diesel scandal, likely will not return to his post even if he clears his name.

Stadler was taken into custody June 18 by German prosecutors who suspected he was interfering with their investigation. Prosecutors who tapped his phone heard him talking about suspending an employee who was cooperating with prosecutors, German press reports said.

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TomM - 6/28/2018 12:32:11 PM

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I expect he will be another leadership person who will be exposed as Obstructing Justice. There is a lot of that going around these days.

Surely there will be a company that would need the expertise of a CEO at that level- that won't care - after all MONEY is the point.

scenicbyway12 - 6/28/2018 1:43:50 PM

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Truth in engineering!!!

malba2367 - 6/28/2018 2:29:19 PM

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He is just the fall guy. Everyone up the chain at VW right up to Martin Winterkorn, and Ferdinand Piech were all fully knowledgable and complicit in this cheating along with the leadership of their supplier Bosch. I also would not be surprised if executives at other companies within the German auto cartel and members of the german government were complicit as well.
I am not attacking German cars, I own and enjoy them....but this and other events in history go to show that Germans have an air of superiority over others and when then mess up they mess up big time.