was once one of germany's highest flying corporate bosses the head of the country's largest carmaker volkswagen now he's been charged with fraud german prosecutors say he and four other top executives knew for years that volved falcons cheating emissions tests for its diesel cars the revelation of that cheating cost v.w. billions in fines around the world ventricle is the first car company to be charged over the scandal in germany. we have more on this now from robot watch from dieter of live business welcome rob what is martin vince a cone accused of well you mentioned serious fraud the prosecutors have actually used the word particularly serious fraud here in these four others are also accused of manipulating competition laws through the diesel emissions scandal so just a reminder of what that is and what this is all about it's been. dogging v.w. for years now but the company has admitted that between two thousand and seven and