FRANKFURT: German prosecutors on Monday (Tuesday in Manila)  announced a criminal probe against Volkswagen's former boss Martin Winterkorn as VW group carmakers Audi and Skoda said more than three million of their vehicles were fitted with software designed to dupe emission tests.

The German government piled on the pressure by urging the embattled auto giant to outline by October 7 how it planned to resolve the crisis that broke after Volkswagen revealed that 11 million of its diesel vehicles worldwide are equipped with so-called defeat devices.

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