Employees of the Ministry of land, infrastructure, transport and tourism of Japan carry out inspections in the headquarters and research center for Japanese automaker Mitsubishi Motors after recognition by the management company of the fact of falsification of technical data of some models.
Now consider the possibility of bringing the company to liability, including fines in connection with the publication of data on low fuel, which were obtained in violation of the rules of carrying out of tests, reports TASS referring to TV channel NHK.
Violation of the rules recognized on Wednesday, company President Tetsuro Aikawa. “We reiterate that the tests conducted in circumvention of the rules to the documentation to specify a lower fuel consumption of several vehicles manufactured by us. It is likely that the figures were underestimated on average by 5-10%”, – he said. Incorrect data on fuel consumption was provided to six compact models, including the eK-Wagon, eK-Space, produced in mid 2013.
The technical documentation also applies to other Japanese car company of Nissan Dayz, which had been developed jointly with Mitsubishi. To date in Japan sold about 625 thousand such cars.
The transport Ministry demanded from the leadership of Mitsubishi Motor to inform the most detailed information on the nature of the violations, and the rest of the company called to verify the data of their tests to avoid similar accusations and to report on the inspections to may 18.
After the publication Monday of reports of fraud the company Mitsubishi Motor shares fell more than 15% and pulled a securities key suppliers.
Previously Mitsubishi was accused of concealment of consumer complaints. According to Japanese law, companies must submit them to the Ministry of land, infrastructure, transport and tourism.
Last year a scandal erupted around the Volkswagen group, which was charged with the equipment of their diesel cars software, lowered the real value of emissions of harmful substances. The American government ordered the group to withdraw 482 thousand cars of brands Volkswagen and Audi sold in the country in 2009-2015. The company also faces a fine of up to $ 18,075 billion.
According to the company VW, the falsification of environmental test content of harmful substances in exhaust gases of vehicles affect up to 11 million cars of Volkswagen around the world. This list includes cars with engine type EA 189 EU5. In connection with the scandal was forced to resign of the General Director of Volkswagen Martin Winterkorn, and the scandal has been called “deselect”.
In my defense technicians Volkswagen said that went on with the scandalous manipulation software, as the head of the concern Martin Winterkorn has set an unattainable goal in front of them.
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