Germany fines BMW $9.6M over diesel emissions

German prosecutors said Monday they had fined high-end carmaker BMW 8.5 million euros ($9.6 million) over diesel cars with higher harmful emissions than allowed, while adding the infraction was down to error rather than deliberate fraud.

Authorities had been probing BMW since early 2018 over suspicions it could have built a so-called “defeat device” into some diesel cars.

In Germany, Volkswagen has paid one billion euros in fines over defeat devices following its 2015 admission that it installed them in 11 million cars worldwide, while high-end subsidiary Audi has paid 800 million euros.

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