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constantcrying on May 26, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: German court sends VW execs to prison over Dieselg...

>but I don't see any Board members getting prison terms.

The head of development, a board member, got a suspended sentence.

>Martin Winterkorn, the CEO, has basically escaped prosecution altogether.

How so?

Drunk_Engineer on May 26, 2025 [–]

Suspended sentence…not prison.

Winterkorn has spent the past decade getting various postponements in his trial. Now that he is approaching 80 it is unlikely he will suffer any serious punishment.

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