April 15 (UPI) -- German prosecutors indicted former Volkswagen CEO Martin Winterkorn and four others on criminal charges Monday related to the emissions cheating scandal that's already cost the automaker billions.
Prosecutors say Winterkorn committed fraud, broke competition laws and breach of trust by failing to tell authorities about the devices installed on diesel-fuel vehicles that were designed to cheat emissions tests in the United States. An estimated 11 million diesel vehicles around the world were found to contain the illegal software.