Are US Investigators Confiscating Passports of German Volkswagen Engineers?
Volkswagen engineers in Germany are afraid to do business trips to the U.S. because one employee had his passport confiscated by U.S. investigators, reported Süddeutsche Zeitung, Germany’s largest subscription daily newspaper, on Saturday.
The paper goes on to explain Volkswagen believes U.S. authorities want to question certain engineers and are preventing their exit from the country, and evasion of questioning, by confiscating their passports.
A spokesman for Volkswagen told Reuters: “Volkswagen employees are still traveling to the United States. Everything else is speculation.”
Süddeutsche Zeitung stated it is unlikely that German employees will travel to the U.S. until assurances are made, including newly minted group CEO Matthias Müller.
“We need legal security here before he can fly to the United States.”
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Exactly. And as undocumented immigrants they also can always seek refuge in San Francisco or other city with liberal policies which will not cooperate with US Government. VW should leave US long time ago. They were stupid for not doing it and now have to price.
Volkswagen sales are still excellent so what difference does this all make for the company. It is a pointless story. Unlike the GM ignition scandal nobody has died from this Volkswagen scandal.
Wonder when Audi, a great and legendary brand, will announce it is going to be an independent company separate and apart from V-Dubbaya?
bk_moto's Laws of Poor Journalism: #1: Whenever a headline is phrased as a question, the answer to the question is always "no."