Volkswagen Denies Allegations Chairman Knew Early About Emissions Cheating: Report

Volkswagen Denies Allegations Chairman Knew Early About Emissions Cheating: Report
Hans Dieter Poetsch speaks to the media after Volkswagen board members elected Poetsch as new chairman of the supervisory board of Volkswagen Group at Volkswagen headquarters on Oct. 7, 2015 in Wolfsburg, Germany. Sean Gallup/Getty Images
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FRANKFURT—Volkswagen has denied allegations that Chairman Hans Dieter Poetsch knew about the carmaker’s emissions test cheating almost three months before U.S. authorities made it public in September 2015.

Citing internal documents from investigators, German weekly Bild am Sonntag reported that Poetsch, VW’s finance head at the time, learned about the carmaker’s violations of the rules in late June 2015.