VW diesel scandal

160 plaintiffs did not live to see the multi-million settlement

The VW diesel scandal and the subsequent class action lawsuit have dragged on for many years since 2018. So long that some injured parties did not live to see the end and have since died. The "Krone" knows what happened to the money and why it stuttered when it was paid out.

It was an almost never-ending story and it is still not quite over. In 2018, the Association for Consumer Information (VKI) filed a class action lawsuit against VW over the so-called diesel scandal. More than 10,000 Austrians took part at the time and they needed a lot of patience. It was not until October 2 of this year that a settlement was reached. Volkswagen paid 23 million euros to the victims.