Volkswagen's former CEO Martin Winterkorn will be paid by the carmaker until his contract expires in a year's time, sources close to the company's supervisory board told Reuters.Winterkorn took responsibility for VW's cheating of diesel emissions tests and resigned in September, within a week of the test manipulations becoming public in the U.S.
VW's supervisory board agreed that the 68-year-old's contract could expire at its due date on Dec. 31, 2016, the sources said, confirming a report by Germany's Handelsblatt newspaper and public broadcaster ZDF.
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