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VW personnel chief quits amid scandal
Associated Press
Published July 9, 2005
BERLIN - Volkswagen AG's personnel chief has submitted his resignation, the company said Friday - a move that comes amid an investigation of bribery and kickback allegations at Europe's biggest automaker.
Peter Hartz offered his resignation to the supervisory board, which still has to decide whether to accept it, Volkswagen said.
Hartz, one of Germany's best-known business executives, lent his name to a controversial reform of unemployment benefits after heading a commission for Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, a former VW board member.
But he has come under pressure since news broke that German prosecutors are looking into bribery allegations against two personnel executives at the company's Skoda subsidiary, amid reports that one of them took money from VW suppliers.
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