VW to pay US customers 5000 each to settle dieselg

BERLIN: Volkswagen has reached a deal with US authorities to settle the case over its cheating of diesel emissions tests that would involve it paying each affected customer $5,000, Germany’s Die Welt newspaper reported on Wednesday.Citing unidentified sources close to the negotiations, Die Welt said the agreement would be presented on Thursday to Judge Charles Breyer in San Francisco, avoiding a trial that was set to start in the summer.A US federal judge last month gave Volkswagen and regulators until April 21 to agree on a fix for nearly 600,000 diesel cars on US roads implicated by VW’s emissions test-rigging scandal.