Ex-Audi CEO Stadler fined $1.2M, avoids jail in VW diesel trial

Former Audi CEO Rupert Stadler waiting for the verdict. — Former Audi CEO Rupert Stadler is shown sitting in a Muinich court room waiting for the verdict. (REUTERS)

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Former Audi CEO Rupert Stadler was given a suspended sentence of one year and nine months for fraud by negligence in the 2015 Volkswagen Group diesel scandal, becoming the first former VW Group board member to receive such a sentence.

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