rob watts firm this joins me in the studio now for more on this so rob this is the fourth time karl is going has been arrested so how are these new his charges linked to all his previous arrests well we first got an idea that this was going to be happening yesterday and all the senses we were getting from japanese prosecutors were that this was something separate but if you hear from his lawyers they say this is very much linked to those three other arrests or let's just go back to the first arrest which was back in november when he was detained having just landed in tokyo on his private jet and he was detained on claims that he had under reported his salary over five years he reported it by about half of what it was that was the allegation he denies it since then we've had these three other arrests and they're all over something code of ated breach of trust which is basically the principle that you have used a company's money for your own gain in this case nissen now he denies all wrongdoing he's actually said in the past the this is a conspiracy by work is. sound who were against his

and rob watts is here for. in the studio with us from davey business to break all of this down for us so what exactly is he accused of so and you mentioned the serious fraud well actually the prosecutors have used the words particularly serious fraud in relation to this case he's charged alongside four others we don't actually know who those four of those are but he's also accused of not only the fraud but of breaking competition rules as you mentioned the first automotive boss to be charged in germany over diesel emissions gondolin that's what this is all about is just remind ourselves of exactly what that was so the diesel emission scandal was the use of software by the likes of fi w. to make their cars appear to be emitting fewer harmful chemicals during testing than they actually did when they were out on the road and what is thought is that v.w. sold something like ten million cars between two thousand and seven and twenty fifteen that had this cheating software installed what mr vinta korn is accused of i

well rob watts from business is following the story for us and he joins me in the studio for more so we're up this is the fourth time now that karl is going has been arrested so how are these newest charges links to all the previous arrests well if you ask the japanese prosecutors they say not links they say they've had to detain him so that they can prevent him from destroying evidence links to this latest charge however his lawyers say that there's no doubt that these are linked to the allegations that came before him and they believe there's some unfair play here by the japanese prosecutors in terms of while going started a bit later but let's go back to when this all started less than six months ago in japan called us going to just landed in his private jet at the air force and he was arrested for the first time that was over claims that he had overstated understated even his salary by around about half over the course of five years well then had over the sort of six months that have followed that three more arrests for call us going over what's known as an aggravated breaches of