In This June 24, 2015 photo Volkswagen CEO Martin Winterkorn arrives for an official state dinner for Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, in front of Germany's President Joachim Gauck's residence, Bellevue Palace, in Berlin. Winterkorn promised full cooperation with the government following the company's admission it rigged nearly a half million cars to defeat U.S. smog tests. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
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Volkswagen CEO Martin Winterkorn has resigned from the company.
The move comes amid a massive scandal for the car-making giant, after it acknowledged having installed software on some 11 million diesel vehicles to circumvent emissions tests.