PARIS: Investigators suspect French carmaker PSA intentionally built diesel cars that failed to meet pollution rules, the daily Le Monde reported Friday, but the company immediately denied it acted fraudulently. Le Monde said French fraud investigators believe the firm had a “global strategy aimed at building fraudulent motors and then sell them,” citing a report by the investigators it obtained. The report by the DGCCRF anti-fraud agency was one of the documents that prompted French prosecutors to open in April a probe into the maker of Peugeot and Citroen cars. A PSA spokesman told AFP the firm “denies any fraudulent strategies and strongly reaffirms the appropriateness of its technology choices” to reduce pollution. Fraud investigators have levelled similar allegations at PSA’s French rival Renault, part government-owned and accused of cheating on pollution tests for diesel and petrol engines for over 25 years with the knowledge of top management.

Source: New Strait Times September 08, 2017 11:26 UTC