FRANKFURT: The head of Norway’s sovereign wealth fund—one of the biggest capital pools in the world—on Sunday lashed Volkswagen’s ownership structure as giving too much power to family shareholders and disadvantaging minority shareholders.

As VW battles a global emissions-cheating scandal, the fund’s chief executive, Yngve Slyngstad, slammed the carmaker’s shareholder structure.

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