Audi CEO Rupert Steyder will be re-elected to 2022

　 According to foreign media reports, the public on May 17, 2017 (Wednesday), said the vote by the board of directors, the 54-year-old Audi CEO - Rupert Stade (Rupert Stadler) Extended to 2022 years.

　　According to foreign media reports, the public on May 17, 2017 (Wednesday) that the 54-year-old Audi CEO - Rupert Stade (Rupert Stadler) term will be extended to 2022 years.

Steyr has been in charge of Audi since 2007, during which he was criticized for the "extravagance" scandal. He will be with other executives colleagues in the May 18, 2017 (Thursday) to accept the shareholders of the company's question, will be asked at the meeting on March 15 this year, the German prosecutors on the "exhaust valve" scandal related Investigation of the situation.

For the proposal of the renewal of the contract, the board of supervisors voted for the referendum. Two members of the Volkswagen Group had previously told Reuters that the board of directors of the Audi will be renewed by the contract on Wednesday at Steyr's contract, and its term of office will be extended to 2022.

Peter Mosch, chairman of the Board of Directors and Chairman of the Board of Supervisors, said in a statement: "In the future tenure, Rupert Steiner must ensure that German factory employees are able to work long term to ensure that The production capacity of the plant has been effectively used to systematically enhance the technology for the company to create a better future.

Audi in November 2015 publicly acknowledged that the company in its 3.0 L V6 diesel engine equipped with a secondary control device (Auxiliary control device), to help them through the US emissions test, after the United States identified as illegal. To this end, the public in the United States to spend 25 billion US dollars, used to solve the owners, environmental regulators, states and distributors of a number of claims, and agreed to buy 500,000 from the United States there are serious pollution problems vehicles.

Audi said on Wednesday that the company decided to raise its terms of reference and improve its internal mechanism for integrity. In the future, the company's chief compliance officer will report directly to the Chief Financial Officer.