I don't buy this from VW for a second. I am not sure what the work environment is in Europe but in all the corporate places I have written code for in US if I

I don't buy this from VW for a second. I am not sure what the work environment is in Europe but in all the corporate places I have written code for in US if I pulled a stunt like this with no backing from managers the best I could hope for is getting yelled at. Most places would have fired me on the spot. The possibility of this being a rogue engineer is extremely remote. This screams management cover-up.