German Prosecutors Raid Opel Over Diesel Allegations: Police

Mohammad Ali (@ChaudhryMAli88) Published October 15, 2018 | 06:37 PM

German police said Monday they had raided French-owned carmaker Opel, as local media reported the manufacturer was the latest suspected of having manipulated diesel cars' exhaust emissions to cheat regulatory tests.

Frankfurt am Main, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 15th Oct, 2018 ) :German police said Monday they had raided French-owned carmaker Opel, as local media reported the manufacturer was the latest suspected of having manipulated diesel cars' exhaust emissions to cheat regulatory tests.

"We confirm that there are police measures and they are ongoing," a spokesman for police in Hesse state told AFP, while the company acknowledged in a statement there were "preliminary proceedings on emissions" with searches at its factories in Ruesselsheim and Kaiserslautern.