German economy ministry says trusts VW to clear up emissions scandal

[March 07, 2016]  BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's Economy Ministry is counting on an internal investigation at carmaker Volkswagen to get to the bottom of a scandal over the rigging of emissions tests, a spokeswoman for the ministry said.

"We trust that the company is leaving no stone unturned," Tanja Alemany Sanchez de León told a government news conference on Monday.

German weekly Bild am Sonntag had reported on Sunday that the current chairman and the chief executive of Volkswagen were alerted by the former CEO to the use of illicit emissions-control software in the United States two weeks before the carmaker disclosed the scale of its manipulations.

(Reporting by Maria Sheahan; Editing by Paul Carrel)

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