Police raided Volkswagen headquarters in Paris in the ongoing investigation of the company's rigging of emissions testing in 11 million of its diesel vehicles worldwide, according to UPI. The raids, which took place Friday, focused on the German car maker's France headquarters in Villers-Cotterêts and a second office near Paris. The Paris prosecutor's office said computer hardware was seized in the raids. Also Friday, investigators raided Lamborghini's headquarters in Italy. Lamborghini is a branch of Volkswagen. "We cooperated with full transparency," a VW spokeswoman said. Some 950,000 vehicles in France were fitted with the software that allowed the vehicles to cheat emissions tests. VW, Europe's largest auto maker, admitted to installing "defeat devices," software able to skew vehicle emissions levels to yield false low readings. The software is on some 482,000 diesel VWs in the United States.
