VW names Daimler compliance manager to help tackle scandal

VW names Daimler compliance manager to help tackle scandal, Volkswagen (VOWG_p.DE) called Daimler administrator Christine Hohmann-Dennhardt on Friday to the anew created column of lath affiliate for candor and acknowledged affairs, as it strives to balance from the aspersion over its cheating of agent emissions tests.

Europe's better carmaker said Hohmann-Dennhardt, who has captivated the aforementioned position at German battling Daimler (DAIGn.DE) back 2011, would alpha her new job on Jan. 1, 2016.

VW aswell said accumulation sales fell 1.5 percent in September from the aforementioned ages endure year. That apparent an advance from a 5.4 percent bead in August and would accept apparent little appulse from the test-cheating scandal, which alone came to ablaze in the additional bisected of September.

VW accepted on Sept. 18 it acclimated actionable software to dispense emissions tests on agent cars in the United States, sparking the better business crisis in its history.

The acceptance has wiped about a division off its banal bazaar value, affected out its adept arch controlling and sparked investigations and lawsuits beyond the world.

Daimler said it had agreed to absolution Hohmann-Dennhardt from her arrangement early.

"Daimler is allowance VW body apple-pie assurance in the German car industry," said Ferdinand Dudenhoeffer, arch of the Center of Automotive Research at the University of Duisburg-Essen.

"It's an important footfall to advice VW apple-pie up the affair."

Though VW has recruited outsiders to arch jobs before, it has a able attitude of announcement from aural and has appear beneath blaze from some investors for appointing aggregation veterans as its new CEO and administrator in the deathwatch of the test-cheating scandal.

Before abutting Daimler, Hohmann-Dennhardt, 65, was a adjudicator of the federal built-in court. Prior to that, she captivated position in the German accompaniment of Hesse including abbot of science and the arts and abbot of justice.

Earlier on Friday, VW answer Lars-Henner Santelmann to be the new arch of its accounts arm, Volkswagen Banking Services.

Santelmann, who abutting VW in 1988, succeeds Frank Witter who was afresh appointed as VW's new arch banking officer.

Breaking down its September sales figures, VW said accumulation sales rose 4.7 percent in western Europe and 7.3 percent in the United States, account by a 0.8 percent abatement in China, a 26 percent bead in Russia and a 44 percent attempt in Brazil.
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