Sunday February 9, 2020
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When the allegations of exhaust gas manipulation become known in autumn 2015, panic prevails, according to employees at Audi in Ingolstadt. A highly confidential paper is now revealing: employees deleted files from their computers and shredded files.
At the Bavarian car manufacturer Audi, hundreds of thousands of documents on the diesel scandal have been destroyed, according to a report by the online business magazine “Business Insider”. The magazine reported that this had already happened in autumn 2015 after the exhaust gas fraud had become known to Volkswagen’s sister company. It relies on a paper classified as “strictly confidential” by the US law firm Jones Day, which investigated the exhaust gas scandal in the VW group internally.
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An Audi spokesman said on request: “The allegations are known and have been investigated sufficiently.” But they are the subject of prosecutorial investigations, “about which we do not comment,” he added.
Business Insider wrote that Jones Day’s paper said 14 people from the Diesel group deleted files from their computers, external devices, and network drives. In addition, an indefinable amount of paper files had been shredded.
According to employees, panic prevailed in Ingolstadt after the allegations of exhaust gas manipulation became known on September 18, 2015. According to Jones Day, the affected Audi engineers sometimes used professional deletion software to prevent the data from being restored.
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