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The European Commission has always said it had “no indication” that car firms were gaming the system of emissions testing. (Photo: Dave Pinter)

Growing proof that EU suspected diesel fraud

Could the European Commission or EU member states have done more to detect Volkswagen's cheating on emissions test? More and more evidence is pointing in that direction.

According to documents seen by this website, as well as a separate investigation by a Dutch magazine, there were suspicions of fraud well before the US Environmental Protection Agency persuaded Volkswagen Group (VW) to admit that it had used cheating software, known legally as defeat devices.

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The European Commission has always said it had “no indication” that car firms were gaming the system of emissions testing. (Photo: Dave Pinter)

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