Prosecutors raided Volkswagen's South Korean head office Friday, February 19, a spokesman for the carmaker said, as part of a probe into the firm's emissions-cheating scandal, AFP reports.
Investigators confiscated computer hard drives and documents after searching the headquarters in Seoul and other Volkswagen offices in the South Korean capital, Yonhap news agency said.
Homes of company officials in charge of product quality control were also raided.
"We have made clear that we will fully cooperate with the investigation and our position remains unchanged," a Volkswagen spokesman told AFP.
The move comes just a month after South Korea's environment ministry filed a criminal complaint against Johannes Thammer, the managing director of the carmaker's local unit, saying a recall plan for emissions-cheating vehicles was legally deficient.
The world's second-largest automaker faces legal action in several countries, after it admitted in September to faking U.S. emissions tests on some of its diesel-engined vehicles.
