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The German Volkswagen (VW) has said it will recall around 11 million cars of the emissions tests scandal. The company is in trouble. Some industry say the recall could cost the automaker more than $6.5 billion. Last , VW admitted in emissions tests in the USA and Europe. It changed to falsely show that VW cars were more fuel- than they really are. VW is Europe's largest carmaker and employs over 750,000 people. It has lost more than a of its market value and has damaged its image as being a leader in clean .

Bosses at VW could face criminal . A Volkswagen board told the BBC that some staff acted over emission tests. He said the people who let happen, or who decided to install the software, acted criminally. He said they must take . He added: "We only found out about the in the last board meeting, shortly before the did. I want to be quite open, so we need to find out why the board wasn't informed about the problems when they were known about over a year ."

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