Former Audi CEO Rupert Stadler is ready to make a confession about his role in Volkswagen Group's diesel emissions scandal in exchange for a suspended sentence and a payment of 1.1 million euros ($1.21 million), his defense team said on Wednesday.
Stadler was charged in 2020 over his role in the scandal after Audi parent VW Group admitted in 2015 to having used illegal software to cheat on emissions tests.
According to prosecutors, engineers manipulated engines in such a way that they complied with legal exhaust emission values on the test bench but not on the road.