French investigators stated Volkswagen Group has been charged in a recent crackdown on alleged deception over diesel emissions that has additionally embroiled rival Renault.

VW was charged on Could 6 and should now make a ten million-euro ($12.2 million) bail cost and supply a 60-million-euro financial institution assure, an official on the Paris prosecutor’s workplace stated in a Wednesday assertion.

The announcement comes a day after Renault revealed it had also been charged over similar accusations in a separate case.

Whereas Renault has stated it didn’t use unlawful gadgets to detect emissions exams, VW settled prison and civil complaints with the U.S. 4 years in the past, pleading responsible to conspiracy to defraud the federal government.

The diesel scandal, uncovered by U.S. regulators in 2015, nonetheless haunts VW. The rigging has value the world’s largest automaker not less than 32 billion euros to date. Lawsuits from disgruntled buyers and clients are set to pull on for years.

The cost represented a reopening of proceedings in Germany in addition to the European Union’s Courtroom of Justice that concluded in 2018 and 2020 respectively, VW stated in an announcement. A double sentence for a similar offense must be prohibited, the automaker stated.

Along with scrutinizing Renault and VW, French investigators have been conducting probes of PSA Group and Fiat Chrysler. The latter two firms merged earlier this 12 months to type Stellantis.