WORLD BULLETINS

VW boss jailed for tests cover-up

A SENIOR Volkswagen manager has been jailed for seven years in the US for covering up a scheme to evade pollution limits on diesel vehicles.

Sentencing Oliver Schmidt in Detroit on Wednesday, District Judge Sean Cox called it an astonishing fraud on American consumers.

Schmidt, who is the second person to be sent to prison over the scandal, was dispatched to the US from Germany in 2015 to meet suspicious California regulators.

But he did not disclose rogue software that had long fooled authorities into believing that VW was meeting emissions rules on nearly 600,000 vehicles.

He also misled American investigators and destroyed documents.