two italian managers in fiat chryslers diesel engine program have been indicted by a federal grand jury in detroit in a widening case alleging a scheme to cheat on us emissions tests washington the us justice department on tuesday said two fiat chrysler senior managers in italy had been indicted in the ongoing probe into diesel emissions cheating at the italianamerican automaker in january 2019 fiat chrysler agreed to an 800 million settlement to resolve civil claims that it used illegal software that produced false results on dieselemissions tests in more than 100000 us vehicles the justice departments criminal investigation into the company which has since changed its name to stellantis nv is pending advt stellantis said in a statement it continues to fully cooperate with the department of justice as we have throughout this issue sergio pasini 43 of ferrera italy and gianluca sabbioni 55 of sala bolognese italy two senior diesel managers at fiat chrysler automobiles italy was indicted in march along with emanuele palma 42 of bloomfield hills michigan who was previously charged the new indictment was unsealed tuesday a spokeswoman for the us attorneys office in detroit said pasini and sabbioni were not in custody palma was charged in september 2019 with making and causing fiat chrysler to make misstatements to us regulators about diesel engines emission control systems palma an italian citizen and auto engineer is set to go trial in october us officials embarked on a wideranging investigation into diesel emissions cheating in the auto industry after september 2015 when volkswagen ag admitted to using secret software to evade emissions rules in october fiat chrysler recognized a new 222 million euro 267 million provision to settle matters primarily related to the dojs ongoing criminal probe into diesel emissions fiat chrysler said then that settlement talks were ongoing and it was not clear if an agreement would be reached in september it agreed separately to pay 95 million to settle us securities and exchange commission allegations that it misled investors over emissions regulations compliance advt reuters published on apr 21 2021 at 0130 pm ist telegram facebook copy link be the first one to comment comment now comments comment now read comment 1 all comments post post find this comment offensive choose your reason below and click on the submit button this will alert our moderators to take actions reasons for reporting foul language defamatory inciting hatred against a certain community out of context spam others report join the community of 2m industry professionals subscribe to our newsletter to get latest insights analysis download etauto app get realtime updates save your favourite articles scan to download app fiat chrysler stellantis diesel emissions us securities and exchange commission department of justice volkswagen ag homenewsindustryus indicts two more fiat chrysler managers in diesel emissions probe