The U.S. Division of Justice has closed its probe into the Mercedes-Benz diesel emissions scandal and the automobile producer is now not going through costs, the corporate mentioned on Saturday.
Mercedes-Benz cooperated absolutely with the DOJ, Renata Jungo Bruengger, board member for integrity, governance and sustainability at Mercedes, mentioned in an emailed assertion.
“With the DOJ’s determination, we’re taking one other essential step in direction of authorized certainty in reference to numerous diesel proceedings,” she mentioned, confirming an earlier report within the German newspaper Handelsblatt in regards to the DOJ determination.
In 2016, the U.S. DOJ known as on Mercedes-Benz to conduct an inside investigation into potential manipulated emissions values in diesel autos.
The automobile maker was accused of deceiving customers with false representations of its BlueTEC autos, which it marketed as “the world’s cleanest and most superior diesel.”