The Register staff in UK do have fun with their titles, but this one sort of wrote itself, I guess. The fellow's last name "Lies" is pronounced "lease" in German.

I would also like to point out that there has been a lot of misstatement on the internet that this had something to do with carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions and/or global warming, but the issue in question was actually nitrogen oxide emissions (NO_x). Carbon dioxide was not an issue in this case. All combustion engines produce the same amount of CO₂ per unit of carbon content in the fuel. -MrF

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Lies from VW: 'Our staff acted criminally but board didn't know'
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30 Sep 2015 at 12:49, Alexander J Martin

Olaf Lies, a Volkswagen board member and the economy minister of Lower Saxony, has stated that some staff acted criminally in installing software which allowed cars to cheat on pollution tests.

Lies told BBC Newsnight that those at VW who oversaw the installation of the defeat device, as well as those who installed it, acted criminally and must take responsibility.

The VW board only discovered the problem during its last meeting, he said. "We only found out about the problems in the last board meeting, shortly before the media did. I want to be quite open. So we need to find out why the board wasn't informed earlier about the problems when they were known about over a year ago in the United States."

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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/09/30/vw_chief_olaf_lies_our_staff_acted_criminally_but_i_knew_nothing/