-->

mo4ch:>How the Audi boss was finally emitted

How the Audi boss was finally emitted




By Theo Leggett
Business correspondent, BBC News






22 June 2018









Image copyright
AFP



Image caption

Rupert Stadler has stood down from his role leading Audi but questions are being asked as to why it took so long

Rupert Stadler is the long-serving Chief Executive of VW's subsidiary Audi and a senior member of the group's management board. He was arrested on Monday as part of an investigation into suspected fraud and false advertising, involving the sale of vehicles equipped with emissions cheating software. He has spent the past few days incarcerated behind the high concrete walls of Augsburg-Gablingen prison - a far cry from Audi's majestic glass-fronted headquarters in Ingolstadt.Executives under fireThe Audi CEO was already known to be under scrutiny. A week before his arrest, his house was searched, by Munich prosecutors. He was named as one of 20 people being investigated as part of their enquiry. He was detained, accordi…