Volkswagen: Dieselgate expands to South Korea

Volkswagen still under fire for Dieselgate: a South Korean executive of the group, as reported by the Wall Street Journal, has been called upon to tampering with data on vehicle emissions and "the question" is therefore officially opened also in South Korea, where other German house manager could soon be questioned by local authorities, from the local head of the Wolfsburg Johannes Thammer home.

Already in November the South Corean government had demanded the recall of more than 125,000 diesel cars and on Monday the Environment Minister Yoon Seong-kyu said that it would decide by the end of the month whether to revoke the certificates of 32 models manufactured by the German company.

In addition, the persistent decline in new car registrations in Brazil would be suggesting, according to local press, the massive cuts to the group. Volkswagen would in fact informed the ABC metalworkers' union plans to cut 3,600 workers in the plant in Sao Bernardo do Campo, about 34% of its workforce. So reports the newspaper "O Estado de S.Paulo", citing union sources.