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