Press reports in Germany revealed that the German automaker Audi had executed hundreds of thousands of documents related to the diesel scandal.
The Business Insider magazine reported today that the Volkswagen Group company made the move in the fall of 2015 when the Volkswagen diesel manipulation scandal was announced.
The magazine based its report on what it described as a paper belonging to the US Legal Consulting Office (Jones Day) was classified under the "top secret" and related to internal investigations into the exhaust scandal in Volkswagen.
For his part, an Audi spokesman said today: "The accusations are known and have been sufficiently investigated," which is a matter of the public prosecution's investigation, "and these are matters that we do not comment on."
The magazine wrote that the paper stated that 14 "people from the diesel group" wiped data from their computers, external devices and network drives, and an unspecified amount of files were executed.
The magazine added that Audi's headquarters in Ingolstadt prevailed, according to statements by company employees, after announcing the accusations of manipulating the exhaust rates.
The magazine added that the (Jones Day) paper clarified that the engineers working in Audi involved in this scandal used, in part of the disposal of their data, professional deletion programs to prevent the possibility of returning the files that were erased.