BERLIN (AP) — A German court has acquitted a former girlfriend of the jailed head of Volkswagen AG‘s employee council of corruption charges.
Braunschweig state court on Wednesday found that Brazilian Adriana Barros was not guilty of being an accessory to breach of trust, news agency dapd reported.
Prosecutors had contended that the 47-year-old received payments totaling €250,000 ($330,000) at VW‘s expense between 2002 and 2004 for providing nonexistent services, and that she knew she wasn’t entitled to them.
The powerful former employee council boss, Klaus Volkert, was convicted and sentenced to a prison term in 2008. He was a key figure in the scandal over allegations that employee representatives received illegal privileges, including lavish foreign trips involving prostitutes paid for by the company.
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