Audi CEO Stadler arrested in diesel-cheating Probe
By Bloomberg
18 June 2018 |
2:43 pm
Audi CEO Rupert Stadler was taken into custody in Munich as part of the diesel-cheating scandal impacting the automaker and parent company Volkswagen.
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