Last day at VW for Jose Ignacio Lopez

On 29th November 1996, Volkswagen 's senior executive Jose Ignacio Lopez de Ariorut resigned as extortion and industrial espionage.

As purchasing director of General Motors, Lopez became part of GM, which pioneered the "New York Times" called "the world's most active low cost system to purchase auto parts." In 1993, Mr. Lopez, GM had not had enough speed to build a project called "GM", so we reduced the cost of GM and increased the profit. Factory X factory "," By buying a system with Lopez, GM 's Volkswagen gave up. He brought over more than 2 million pages of secret GM documents, business plans, new car design photos, parts and factory blueprints - GM. Volkswagen was used to reduce expenditures of $ 450 million and eliminated GM's competitive advantage in competition (For the European market, Lopez denies any injustice, the idea is He insisted, but in fact the intellectual property law was stated in a different way In mid-November 1996, Volkswagen opened a new factory.Brazilian Resende is the terror of X factory It seems to be based on the plan.

Three years after Lopez left GM, an American automobile giant tried to overthrow Lopez and apologize for his theft, but he did not succeed. The lawsuit insisted that Lopez and the people were involved in spies, extortion and copyright infringement. Finally, Volkswagen announced that Lopez will resign to allow competitors to resolve the case outside the court. However, his resignation did not prevent criminal investigation against him. Within a few weeks the prosecutor filed a lawsuit in the German and US courts.

In January 1997, Volkswagen paid $ 100 million to General Motors and agreed to purchase $ 1 billion worth of auto parts from a US company between 1997 and 2004. They admit that there is no illegal act, but civil servants also announced a statement admitting that there is possibility that what they call "probability" illegal behavior "has occurred.

In 1998, the German court imposed a fine of 280,000 dollars on Lopez and withdrew all criminal action against him. In 2001, the Spanish High Court refused to hand over him to the United States for a trial.

GM appealed Volkswagen in 1996 and insisted that German carmakers encouraged former GM officer Ignacio Lopez to provide patent company information to Volkswagen. With this intense controversy Lopez resigned from Volkswagen and in the beginning of 1997 Volkswagen agreed to pay $ 100 million to General Motors and parts of $ 1 billion from General Motors within 7 years. In 1996, GM spun off EDS (market value of $ 27 billion) to shareholders. In the same year, GM agreed to sell four parts and parts factories to Peregrine Inc. (founded by the investment company Joseph Littlejohn & Levy), and the purchase price has not been disclosed. At the end of 1996, GM began producing Chevrolet Trailblazers in Russia.

Three years after Lopez left GM, an American automobile giant tried to overthrow Lopez and apologize for his theft, but he did not succeed. The lawsuit insisted that Lopez and the people were involved in spies, extortion and copyright infringement. Finally, Volkswagen announced that Lopez will resign to allow competitors to resolve the case outside the court. However, his resignation did not prevent criminal investigation against him. Within a few weeks the prosecutor filed a lawsuit in the German and US courts.

Regarding the case of Antonio Guzman-Lopez, details are not disclosed, but it is well known that Lopez was killed by San Jose police more than a year ago. Lopez was an undocumented worker and was approached by the San Jose State Police when the conflict details came to be paralyzed. It was supposed that the San Jose State Police was summoned because 10:55 am on February 21, 2014, explained that Lopez acted oddly and was walking with a knife. As a day laborer, Lopez is known for carrying a one foot long saw blade for construction. Reporting officer Fritz van der Hawke and Sergeant. Mike Santos rushed to the scene and began asking Lopez. Lopez 's partner Raleigh Valdez reportedly repeatedly told him that there is a reason to fear the police. As an undocumented immigrant, he was collecting recycling as supplementing income, and Lopez had troublesome familiarity with the San Jose police.