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Criminal authorities are probing 95,000 vehicles to see whether
the vehicles, which are equipped with Euro 6d engines, used
exhaust management software to manipulate diesel emissions, the
Frankfurt prosecutor's office said on Monday.
The engines are used in the Opel Insignia, Zafira and Cascada
models, Nadja Niesen from the Frankfurt prosecutor's office
confirmed.
"Opel confirms that the public prosecutor's office of Frankfurt
is conducting investigations in the course of preliminary
proceedings on emissions at the sites in Ruesselsheim and
Kaiserslautern," the carmaker said.
"We cannot comment on details concerning the ongoing
investigation at this moment in time. The company is fully
cooperating with the authorities. Opel reaffirms that its
vehicles comply with the applicable regulations."
PSA Group, which owns the Opel and Vauxhall brands, declined to
comment.
German daily Bild was first to report on the search.
The Opel Insignia, Zafira and Cascada were developed when Opel
and its sister brand Vauxhall were still owned by General Motors
<GM.N>. General Motors sold Opel to PSA Group in 2017.
Opel admitted in 2016 that its Zafira model contained engine
software which switched off exhaust emissions treatment systems
under certain circumstances. Opel insisted at the time that it
was making use of a legal loophole.
(Reporting by Hans Seidenstuecker and Irene Preisinger,
additional reporting by Laurence Frost in Paris; writing by
Edward Taylor; editing by Thomas Seythal, Maria Sheahan and Jan
Harvey)
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