Volkswagen Disputes Allegations It Was Tardy in Disclosing News on Scandal

The Wall Street Journal (online registration required): BERLIN—Volkswagen AG filed a statement with a German district court Tuesday rejecting allegations that the company failed to inform financial markets in a timely manner about potential liabilities from its emissions-cheating affair and published new details about when former Chief Executive Martin Winterkorn became aware of the fraud.

In a four-page statement, Volkswagen acknowledged for the first time that Mr. Winterkorn and Herbert Diess, CEO of the Volkswagen passenger cars division, were briefed July 27, 2015, about...

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