Stop misleading consumers VW! A new emission scandal has struck in Germany: assumption of a cartel

#Dieselgate VW Group car producers go back to the eye of the storm: it’s a new scandal. According to a recent survey started from VW revelations, the five companies have been secretly concluding agreements to tamper with the car emission data since the 90s.

Since 2015 Altroconsumo fights for transparency in the European car system and since July has opened the formal participation to the class action against VW. Over 30.000 people already contacted the organization for more details.

If Volkswagen payed a euro anytime its top managers talked about transparency, by now the “VW talks” fund would be very consistent. But people are interested in proved and documented facts. And facts are crystal clear: the German company must compensate Italian and European car owners for the Dieselgate scandal, as already done for US citizens; compensation that’s due to the 650.000 people in Italy that bought a car with different and worse performances than declared, deliberately tampered by VW.

Three weeks from the opening of the formal participation to Altroconsumo class action, admitted by the Court of Venice, about 18.000 are the people who started the procedure to complete the subscription. VW empty words are followed by the facts of those who demand justice.

Meanwhile on the institutional side, Altroconsumo demand transparency from the European Commission and the national Authorities on the arisen assumption of a cartel between car producers. By its own admission, VW has tampered with the cars with EA189 engine performances, lied to Italian and European consumers enacting unfair commercial practices and, for this, has been sanctioned by the Antitrust Authority with a fine of 5.000.000 euros. 

#demandjustice Now VW is required to reimburse the significant harm caused to millions of consumers by  Belgian, Spanish, Portuguese and Italian Courts following TestAchats, OCU, Deco e Altroconsumo class actions. The first admitted class action in Europe is Altroconsumo’s at the Court of Venice: the over 650.000 Italian VW car owners affected by Dieselgate can participate for free on Altroconsumo website within the end of September, but they need to rush. 

Ivo Tarantino, Altroconsumo Public Affairs Manager: “18.000 Italian consumers already adhered to our class action. We ask all the Institutions, public and private press organizations and market players who really care for fairness, transparency and market sustainability, to help us spread this opportunity to as many consumers as possible so that the critical mass of the class action subscribers can finally thin the thick fogs that clever lobby schemes built to cloud the Institution work for the citizens defense.”

(ITALIAN VERSION)