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After a quick google I get two results that disagree:

* wikipedia claims ongoing investigations against 37 people involved

* Politicians are working on the Musterfeststellungsklage, a class action equivalent for the German justice system. Explicitly so that buyers have better odds suing VW.

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Which in my perception is still not nearly as hard as other industries would have been punished for similar crimes. I did not claim that they don't get punished at all.

The proposal for the latter has already been hollowed out in such a way that the likelihood of any customer actually being able to sue a company is rather slim. Only a narrow band of customer representatives are even allowed to sue. And it's going to be exclusive, meaning the first one to sue locks out everyone else for good. So if your company fucks up? Get some stooge to sue and fail, before anyone else gets a chance.

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