Arrest of Former Audi Executive Highlights VW Investigators’ Strategy
By JACK EWINGJULY 7, 2017
FRANKFURT — United States investigators are continuing to pursue wrongdoing in Volkswagen’s emissions deception,
charging a former manager at the carmaker’s Audi luxury car division who has been arrested in Germany.
Another former Volkswagen executive, James Liang, has pleaded guilty to charges including
conspiracy to defraud the United States government and to violate the Clean Air Act.
Beginning in 2006, Mr. Pamio helped find a way to evade clean air standards in the United States after other departments
at Audi refused to allocate enough room in the car for the necessary pollution equipment, according to the complaint.
Mr. Pamio, the eighth former Volkswagen executive to be charged by the United States government, was arrested by Munich authorities this week.
