German police have detained a Porsche manager in a probe into the diesel emissions cheating scandal that the luxury car brand's parent company Volkswagen has struggled to shed. Porsche chief Oliver Blume "informed the workforce that the prosecutor of Stuttgart has taken a manager into custody", a spokesman for Porsche told AFP on Friday.
Porsche did not name the suspect, but Germany's top-selling newspaper Bild and economic weekly Wirtschaftswoche reported that the man being held is Joerg Kerner, an engineer in charge of Porsche's engine division who was working at Audi when the diesel scandal broke in 2015. Prosecutors, who also did not identify the suspect, said he had been remanded in custody because of "risk of flight" and that a probe had been opened against him since July last year.
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