Senior VW exec jailed for seven years over dieselgate cover-up

The former general manager in charge of Volkswagen's environmental and engineering office has been fined and jailed in the US, after pleading guilty to helping cover up the firm's diesel emissions scandal.

Oliver Schmidt, a German national who worked in VW's Michigan office, was accused of concealing software that the company used to artificially lower levels of harmful nitrous oxides in exhaust emissions.