Volkswagen staff acted criminally, says board member
Olaf Lies, a Volkswagen board member and economy minister of Lower Saxony has told Newsnight some staff acted criminally over emission cheat tests.
He said the people who allowed the deception to happen or who installed the software that allowed certain models to give false emissions readings must take personal responsibility.
He also said the board only found out about the problems at the last meeting.
About 11 million diesel engine cars are affected by the problem.
Mr Lies told the BBC: "Those people who allowed this to happen, or who made the decision to install this software - they acted criminally. They must take personal responsibility."
He said: "We only found out about the problems in the last board meeting, shortly before the media did. I want to be quite open. So we need to find out why the board wasn't informed earlier about the problems when they were known about over a year ago in the United States."
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