A Dutch court has awarded compensation for owners of Volkswagen cars equipped with emission-rigging technology which allowed the cars to lie about the number of emissions they produced.
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First-hand owners of Audi, VW, Seat and Skoda models have been awarded €3,000, while second-hand owners have been given €1,500.
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The compensation should cover around 150,000 cars in total. Volkswagen Group is expected to appeal this ruling.
This verdict comes as part of the dieselgate scandal, in which Volkswagen admitted to equipping vehicles with technology that allowed them to cheat on emissions tests.
Audi's CEO Rupert Stadler went on trial in September 2020 over the dieselgate scandal. The trial is expected to last until 2022.
Both Stadler and former VW Group CEO Martin Winterkorn were sued by the group over their breach of "duty of care" over the scandal.
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Stadler went as far as to blame company engineers for the issues.
Stadler testified to a Munich court on January 12 that engineers gave the management board at VW Group's luxury-car unit insufficient information to detect the fraud.
Audi, alongside a number of VW Group firms, has since elected to phase out traditional combustion engines by 2035.
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