BERLIN — Volkswagen Group stated it has reached settlement with former CEO Martin Winterkorn and three different former high executives over compensation for his or her involvement within the automaker’s diesel-emissions scandal.

The settlement means VW receives 288 million euros ($351 million) in compensation associated to the scandal that has price the corporate greater than 32 billion euros in fines, refits and authorized prices.

In a statement on Wednesday, VW stated:

• Winterkorn has agreed to pay 11.2 million euros of compensation
• Rupert Stadler, former CEO of VW’s Audi division, agreed to pay 4.1 million euros
• Wolfgang Hatz, VW Group’s former high engineer, pays 1.5 million euros
• Audi’s former growth head, Stefan Knirsch, pays 1 million euros

The automaker stated it should additionally obtain 270 million euros from its administrators’ and officers’ legal responsibility (D&O) insurances.

VW stated that former Audi and VW govt Ulrich Hackenberg was not ready to succeed in an settlement. Preparations will likely be made for authorized motion in opposition to Hackenburg, it stated.

Hackenberg left the automaker in 2015 after being suspended within the wake of the scandal and was changed by Knirsch. As investigations continued into the diesel scandal, Knirsch abruptly left in September 2016.

Hackenberg was the architect of VW Group’s MQB platform, which underpins many of the automaker’s inner combustion engine vehicles.

VW stated its supervisory board concluded that Winterkorn breached his duties of care by failing to “comprehensively and promptly” make clear the circumstances behind the usage of illegal software program features in diesel engines offered within the U.S. between 2009 and 2015.

Winterkorn “additionally failed to make sure that the questions requested by the U.S. authorities on this context have been answered honestly, fully and at once,” the assertion added.

Stadler breached his duties of care by failing, within the interval beginning Sept. 21 2016, to make sure that 3.0-liter and 4.2-liter diesel engines developed by Audi and put in in VW, Audi and Porsche automobiles have been investigated with regard to illegal software program operate, VW stated.

VW’s announcement comes Winterkorn was charged with giving false testimony about the emissions scandal to German parliament. The prosecution alleges he misled lawmakers in 2017 when giving testimony that he didn’t learn about emissions dishonest sooner than VW formally admitted.

VW stated in late March it might declare damages from Winterkorn and Stadler for breaches of obligation of care underneath inventory company regulation. The regulation agency Gleiss Lutz carried out a evaluation of legal responsibility claims on behalf of the automaker.

The compensation funds nonetheless should be authorised by VW Group’s annual assembly on July 22.

The funds signify the best of their variety in Germany. Over a decade in the past, ex-Siemens CEO Heinrich von Pierer paid 5 million euros in damages to his former employer.

Reuters and Bloomberg contributed to this report