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One of them was for a while. Both of them are out of jail as of now.
Martin Winterkorn was the one who did not see jail (yet anyway), brief excerpt:
So...possibly a fine less than the bonus he got.
Oliver Schmidt was the other:
3 year and 1 month sentence
I do note the Chinese cases seem to be about air pollution data itself being falsified, where here the charges are for things such as fraud. The Chinese execs jailed are all from just 4 steel mills
Yeah, the German polluters got punished for fucking with the money, not for fucking with the environment.