Oblaki v Stuttgartu pa niso samo nad Porschejem, ampak tudi nad firmo Robert Bosch GmbH, ki je za VAG razvijala in mu dobavljala goljufivo opremo. Odvetniki ameriških kupcev sleparskih avtomobilov trdijo, da je Bosch od VAG zahteval odškodninsko zavarovanje za svoje sodelovanje pri emisijskem sleparjenju.

Robert Bosch GmbH asked Volkswagen AG eight years ago to indemnify it for using the emissions-cheating defeat device the supplier helped the automaker create for its diesel engines, U.S. car owners said in a new version of their lawsuit against both companies.
Bosch is accused in the lawsuit of conspiring with VW to develop technology that enabled diesel vehicles to evade pollution-control tests. After seeking legal protection from VW for its use of the device in the U.S., the German auto-parts supplier continued to participate in the conspiracy to hide the cheating from regulators, car owners said in a court filing citing a 2008 letter from Bosch to VW.
“Discovery of Bosch has just begun, but the evidence already proves that Bosch played a critical role in a scheme to evade U.S. emission requirements,” consumer lawyers said last month in a partially sealed filing. Among the details included in the unsealed version of the filing Friday was the demand for indemnification for anticipated liability arising from the use of the “defeat device,” as Bosch called it in the letter.
“Volkswagen apparently refused to indemnify Bosch, but Bosch nevertheless continued to develop the so-called ‘akustikfunktion’ (the code name used for the defeat device) for Volkswagen for another seven years,” the consumer lawyers wrote.
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The filing also accuses Bosch Chief Executive Officer Volkmar Denner of knowing about the use of the defeat device. It alleges that in May 2014 Denner took part in a meeting with former VW CEO Martin Winterkorn that shows both "were aware of the illegal use of the defeat devices at least by May 2014." Winterkorn resigned in September 2015.
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