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Dieselgate: Volkswagen reached an agreement with US dealers

Volkswagen has reached an agreement with 652 American dealers for losses incurred due to the emissions scandal, the so-called Dieselgate. The Deutch company has not specified the amount of the transaction "in cash" and probably until "late September" will work to develop "details" of the cartel which in any case must be examined by a Court of San Francisco.

For about a year the American dealers were forbidden to sell the VW diesel cars manufactured during the period affected by the scandal. The company, in a statement, confirmed that the agreement provides "cash payments and other benefits that will be granted to retailers."

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German state of Bavaria will sue Volkswagen for dieselgate

The Bavarian Government will cause to Volkswagen. The fall in the price of the automaker’s shares in Wurzburg, it said in a statement, determined by dieselgate damages the Bavarian pension funds. Bavaria’s state pension fund for civil servants lost as much as 700,000 euros ($ 783,580.00) after VW shares plunged in the wake of the Sept. 18 revelation by U.S. regulators of the carmaker’s manipulation.

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