The suspect part had been sourced by a supplier in the VW supply chain and not by VW directly, it was claimed.

It came as Volkswagen was hit by additional claims from German media that it had benefitted from human rights abuses in China’s troubled Xinjiang region.

  • Fleppensteyn
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    387 months ago

    When it comes to chocolate, the US says it’s OK to import products made from slave labor since the violations don’t happen on US territory.

    US doesn’t grow chocolate but they do build (crappy) cars. How convenient

    • @[email protected]
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      67 months ago

      It was a self report, most likely to avoid harsher consequences. Just like the diesel emissions scandal it is something that would not be persecuted in Germany the same way because the car industry owns the German government.

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      7 months ago

      If they build crappy cars of their own, they have no need to import crappy cars from abroad. Indeed convenient.