Police Raid Volkswagen France Headquarters
Investigators in France seized documents and office equipment from Volkswagen offices there in connection with its inquiry into the automaker’s admission that it cheated emissions tests.
The raid, which happened on Friday, wasn’t reported until Sunday, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Investigators in Germany and Italy have already seized documents from Volkswagen’s respective headquarters in those countries relating to the scandal, which affects more than 11 million cars worldwide.
A spokeswoman for Volkswagen in France said the company was cooperating with investigators.
Nearly one million cars in France were fitted with the illegal “defeat device” that cheated emissions tests. A Paris prosecutor is investigating the automaker for “aggravated deception” on those 946,000 cars, according to the New York Times.
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Apparently during the police raid it was discovered that the programmer writing the cheats was a 13 year old from Denmark and there was a naked man sitting in a bean bag chair eating Cheetos watching him work.
C'mon Volkswagen, keep pushing that "few rogue low level employees" theory.
RAID!!!!
Volkswagen should return the favor and hire people to raid public officials' offices in dead of night, confiscating any correspondence or equipment used to tie the raids to political campaigns. When a company has admitted wrong-doing and is cooperating with authorities, there is no need for raids of this type, unless there's a political angle. The public has a need to know what their elected officials are up to, and the press has abdicated its responsibility.