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Hanover / Regensburg (dpa) - After the last action in autumn, investigators have again searched the business premises of the automotive supplier Continental in connection with the VW emissions scandal.
A good two weeks ago, the public prosecutor's office and the police came back to the Conti headquarters in Hanover, said a company spokesman on Thursday.
The DAX company did not provide details of the investigations that were continued on January 12th.
The «Wirtschaftswoche» had previously reported on it.
The number of suspects is now significantly higher at 41, previously the allegations had been directed against seven engineers and two project managers.
"The circle has been expanded, but it is still the same procedure," said Continental.
In July and September there were also searches - including in Regensburg, where large parts of the Vitesco drive division, which has now been outsourced, are located.
The Hanover public prosecutor's office is investigating suspicion of aiding and abetting fraud and indirect false certification in the years 2006 to 2015.
Specifically, it is about the question of whether employees of the former Siemens car technology division VDO - taken over by Continental in 2007 - possibly accepted the order for the engine control of an edition of the later VW scandal engine EA 189 in the knowledge that the car manufacturer from Wolfsburg was fraudulently doing it Wanted to pursue intentions.
In addition, indications are followed up that the documentation of the exhaust software should have been influenced accordingly.
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