MOSCOW (Sputnik) – According to The Wall Street Journal, the $175 million is expected to cover the expenses for a $14.7-billion deal reached between Volkswagen, government agencies and 475,000 owners of diesel vehicles with 2.0-liter engines.
In August, the lawyers representing the plaintiffs demanded $324 million in fees and $8.5 million in expenses for their work.
In September 2015, the Volkswagen faced a public emission scandal when the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) accused the automaker of using software to falsify emission test results for its diesel-engine cars. Millions of diesel-engine Volkswagen vehicles manufactured between 2009 and 2015 were estimated to have been programmed to cheat emissions tests for nitrogen oxide. Volkswagen admitted that 11 million of its vehicles worldwide had been fitted with software to cheat emissions tests.
