Comment on German court sends Volkswagen execs to prison over Dieselgate scandal

• Katana314@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I only have cursory knowledge of this incident, but: It’s possible that was the right outcome. A lot of middle managers do some heinous shit, and then report only positive news to upper management with a “Don’t worry about it” attitude.

  We all know there’s also evil CEOs in the world as well, but maybe the investigation found this wasn’t one of them. 'Course, maybe they were just better at keeping plausible deniability.

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  • DrunkEngineer@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The Board had discussions about how to stonewall California. US prosecutors have filed charges but Germany won’t extradite.

    They are all guilty as fuck.

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    • Nexz@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I mean, apart from the apparent guilt, do you think any country would simply hand over its prominent nationals? If there were a case against an US CEO in Germany, hell would freeze over before extradition.

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      • DrunkEngineer@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        The point is that the US has gathered enough evidence to get indictments against them. Germany has access to that same evidence and has very similar laws that were violated – but has done basically nothing.

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    • barsoap@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Of course Germany won’t extradite we don’t extradite nationals to non-EU countries. It can even happen that we don’t extradite Americans to the US because they can demonstrate that they’re likely to face torture in the US, such as isolation cells.

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    • Honytawk@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The US really like their prisoners, don’t they.

      They demand extraditing of prisoners from other countries, but won’t ever extradite to other countries themselves.

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  • skisnow@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah, the second one. It’s the ones prepared to do shit like that who get promoted in the first place.

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• AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  • venusaur@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Damn, assassination for air pollution is new for me.

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    • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The rich choose to exert violence on everyone else daily. This is community defense.

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      • venusaur@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Lying about emissions is violence? Like chemical warfare?

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