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Ex-labour boss jailed in VW scandal
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![Klaus-Joachim Gebauer, far left, and Klaus Volkert, far right, await their sentencing [AFP]](http://mwcnews.net/images/stories/Germany/1/Klaus-Joachim-Gebauer.jpg "Klaus-Joachim Gebauer, far left, and Klaus Volkert, far right, await their sentencing [AFP]") | | Klaus-Joachim Gebauer, far left, and Klaus Volkert, far right, await their sentencing [AFP] |
A German court has sentenced Klaus Volkert, the former Volkswagen works council head, to almost three years in prison.
Volkert is the first person to be given a jail sentence in the bribery and sex trips scandal that has rocked Europe's biggest carmaker.
The court found Volkert guilty of inciting and abetting a breach of trust and handed the former labour boss a two year and nine month sentence.
Last year, the same judge gave Peter Hartz, a former personnel head, a two-year suspended sentence and a fine of about $750,000.
Once second only to Ferdinand Piech, Volkswagen's then-chief executive, who is currently chairman, Volkert stepped down when it came to light that he had also pocketed nearly $2.96m in illegal bonuses. The court on Friday also handed down a one-year suspended sentence to Klaus-Joachim Gebauer, a former personnel manager and aide to Hartz for breach of trust.
Gebauer organised numerous events at which Volkswagen labour representatives were extensively wined and dined and even took trips to nightclubs and brothels paid for by a corporate slush fund.
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