MOSCOW (Sputnik) — The Braunschweig District Court said in a statement it had registered 170 lawsuits from mostly private investors against Volkswagen after it admitted last September it had cheated in gas emissions tests. One complaint was signed by 277 investors from Germany and abroad.
"Under the upcoming procedure, the Higher Regional Court of Braunschweig will choose the main plaintiff from the plaintiffs who filed complaints with the District Court," the court’s statement read.
The United States accused Volkwagen last year of programming its diesel cars to lower the exhaust emissions detected during tests. The carmaker was forced to recall hundreds of thousands of vehicles and now faces over $14 billion in payments to US regulators and consumers.
