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Volkswagen pressed to resolve investigations and lawsuits as quickly as possible, while working to repair its reputation with car buyers and dealers. It’s now selling more cars and trucks then ever, offsetting declines in the U.S. with strong sales in China. The company and its executives are still under investigation in Germany and it faces investor lawsuits in the U.S. and at home.

“Volkswagen deeply regrets the behavior that gave rise to the diesel crisis,” Chief Executive Officer Matthias Mueller said in a statement. “We will continue to press forward with changes to our way of thinking and working.”

Seven Charged

Neusser was a management board member in charge of research and development at the namesake brand. His lawyer didn’t immediate respond to requests for comment. Representatives for the other four men couldn’t immediately be reached.

A total of seven men have been charged so far, with one U.S.-based engineer pleading guilty in September and cooperating in the probe. Over the weekend, Oliver Schmidt, VW’s liaison with U.S. environmental regulators, was arrested in Miami as he was returning to Germany from vacation.

VW admitted in 2015 that about 11 million diesel cars worldwide were outfitted with so-called defeat devices, embedded algorithms used to game emissions tests. The settlement pushes the cost of the scandal to more than US$23 billion in the U.S. and Canada and will force the company to increase the money set aside to pay fines and compensate affected customers, which currently totals 18.2 billion euros (US$19.1 billion).