Bosch probed again
Privately-owned auto supply giant back in Germany’s legal crosshairs over DieselgateGerman prosecutors have launched a second investigation into Bosch, the world’s largest car-industry supplier, over Volkswagen’s Dieselgate emissions scandal.
While Bosch settled a Dieselgate case with the US Department of Justice just months ago, German prosecutors are now focusing on the culpability of individual Bosch employees, rather than the company.
The privately-owned company provided the engine control units, which contained the infamous Dieselgate emission-cheating software code, for the 11 million illegal Volkswagen four-cylinder turbo-diesel engines built from 2008 to 2015.
German prosecutors today stated Bosch is now in the prosecution crosshairs for helping Daimler in its alleged fraud and false advertising in relation to its thermal switching software, which turned off full emissions cleaning below 10 degrees and above 26 degrees.
The investigation is related to the search of 11 Daimler sites yesterday.
In February this year, Bosch agreed to pay $US327.5 million to US Volkswagen owners and dealers over the Dieselgate cars.
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