Will any Volkswagen senior executives be brought to justice in the United States for their role in the emissions testing scandal? While eight VW executives have been indicted, only one executive has been arrested. It was Oliver Schmidt, a Volkswagen AG executive who was arrested In January when departing the United States from a Christmas vacation. One other lower-level U.S. employee has been indicted and has pled guilty. The remaining five executives who have been indicted live in Germany, which is disinclined to extradite its citizens to the United States for trial. Of those five indicted, none were senior executives in the company.
