German carmaker Volkswagen will pay $175 million for the services of attorneys representing car owners affected by the oil companies in the United States.
The plaintiffs were about 475 thousand people.
Earlier, the lawyers had planned to obtain for their services from the automaker $332 million, but the court reduced this amount to $175 million Now the German automaker, a total of required to pay $16.7 billion for bypass environmental laws of the United States, in accordance with an agreement between Volkswagen and the American Ministry of justice.
In 2015, it became known that employees of the Volkswagen was equipped with a number of cars and software, which lowers rates of harmful emissions into the atmosphere, to circumvent the strict environmental laws of the United States. Now investigation on this issue are also held in Europe and Asia. There is a possibility of similar violations in 11 million vehicles in many countries of the world.
