BERLIN: German police swooped on Volkswagen's headquarters on Thursday, carrying away files and hard disks as the investigation into a massive pollution cheating scandal expanded on both sides of the Atlantic. Private apartments were also raided in Volkswagen's hometown of Wolfsburg and other cities, prosecutors said, as police sought to secure documents and digital data that could point to those responsible for the deception of global proportions. The raids came as Volkswagen's US chief Michael Horn faced a grilling before Congress, where he sought to distance himself from the scandal while blaming it on engineers in Germany. Horn told a committee that he had learned in early 2014 that the...
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