{"id":40949,"date":"2019-09-25T07:22:05","date_gmt":"2019-09-25T07:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=40949"},"modified":"2019-09-25T07:22:05","modified_gmt":"2019-09-25T07:22:05","slug":"vw-ceo-and-chairman-charged-in-germany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=40949","title":{"rendered":"VW CEO and chairman charged in Germany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\"><cite class=\"el-editorial-source\">London (CNN Business)<\/cite>Volkswagen CEO Herbert Diess and the company&#8217;s chairman, Hans Dieter P\u00f6tsch, were charged by German prosecutors on Tuesday with stock market manipulation tied to the carmaker&#8217;s diesel emissions scandal. <\/p>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">The two executives are accused of failing to disclose the huge financial risks of the diesel scandal to shareholders in a timely fashion.<\/div>\n<div class=\"zn-body__paragraph speakable\">New charges against <a href=\"https:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2019\/04\/15\/business\/winterkorn-volkswagen-diesel-fraud-charges\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Martin Winterkorn<\/a>, the former CEO of <span>Volkswagen<\/span> <span>(<span class=\"inlink_chart\"><a href=\"https:\/\/money.cnn.com\/quote\/quote.html?symb=VLKAF&#038;source=story_quote_link\" class=\"inlink\">VLKAF<\/a><\/span>)<\/span>, were also revealed in an indictment running to nearly 640 pages.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>London (CNN Business)Volkswagen CEO Herbert Diess and the company&#8217;s chairman, Hans Dieter P\u00f6tsch, were charged by German prosecutors on Tuesday with stock market manipulation tied to the carmaker&#8217;s diesel emissions scandal. The two executives are accused of failing to disclose the huge financial risks of the diesel scandal to shareholders in a timely fashion.New charges&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":40950,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/40950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}