(Bloomberg) -- Volkswagen AG all but eliminated one frontin the pollution scandal that has plagued the carmaker for nearlythree months, after the company’s suspicions of illegaldiscrepancies in carbon-dioxide emissions proved unfounded.
Only “slight deviations” were found in a fraction of the 800,000cars involved in the CO2 investigation, the Wolfsburg,Germany-based company said in a statement Wednesday. While theremay be a “minor economic impact” from the issue, Volkswagensaid it no longer faces potential damages of as much as 2 billioneuros ($2.2 billion). The shares closed up 6.2%, the most sinceNov. 30, to 131.75 euros in Frankfurt.
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