BERLIN (Reuters) – The U.S. Department of Justice has closed its probe into the Mercedes-Benz (OTC:) diesel emissions scandal and the automobile producer is not dealing with fees, the corporate mentioned on Saturday.
Mercedes-Benz cooperated totally with the DOJ, Renata Jungo Bruengger, board member for integrity, governance and sustainability at Mercedes, mentioned in an emailed assertion.
“With the DOJ’s decision, we are taking another important step towards legal certainty in connection with various diesel proceedings,” she mentioned, confirming an earlier report within the German newspaper Handelsblatt in regards to the DOJ resolution.
In 2016, the U.S. DOJ known as on Mercedes-Benz to conduct an inner investigation into potential manipulated emissions values in diesel automobiles.
The automobile maker was accused of deceiving customers with false representations of its BlueTEC automobiles, which it marketed as “the world’s cleanest and most advanced diesel.”