Photos of huge parking lots filled with the withdrawn VW models went around the world in the time after the dieselskandalen.
As part of a sentence in order to install snydesoftware in its diesel cars was the Volkswagen group is entrusted to buy over 300,000 cars back from us customers, and they were in a period of time stored in 37 places across the country.
the Sight of the many fully operational vehicles however, may have been a tad too tempting for the two men from Michigan, UNITED states. They are now accused of stealing approximately 61 withdrawn from the market VW and Audi models from one of the seats outside the city of Pontiac.
According to a press release from the prosecutor’s office in Michigan has the theft been going on in a small half a year from march to september 2017. The two men have had the good fortune to sell several of the cars ahead, and 46 of them have reportedly been put on trucks and driven out of Michigan.
This writes Automotive News.
The two men has, according to the prosecution, cooperation with other criminal acts. However, it is not immediately clear who these partners are, and who has bought many cars.
If successful the prosecution to prove that the accused has sold or retained the stolen cars, they can be sentenced up to 10 years in prison each. The two men are also accused of conspiring to commit criminal acts, and they become convicted of this, it can, according to the press release provide up to five years in prison.
if you Ask the sheriff Michael J. Bouchard, they should both receive the maximum punishment.
– These persons exhibited bold behavior by stealing a large number of cars from a well-known location. The criminals deserve to receive the worst possible punishment within the framework of the law, he says in the press release.
There was supposedly thousands of withdrawn VW and Audi models in the parking lot in Pontiac. Here they were waiting for as many others to get installed a new and legitimate software and will be sent back on the second hand market.