meeting last month to commission an audit of the plant in Urumqi, Xinjiang, where it assembles cars for sale in the region.
Volkswagen has said previously its joint-venture partner at the plant SAIC would have to agree to the audit.A Volkswagen spokesperson on Thursday declined to say whether SAIC had demanded conditions on the audit. Still, a sweeping crackdown on consultancy and due diligence firms in China, some of which refuse to audit in Xinjiang because of heightened difficulty of ascertaining reliable reports there, raises questions on how reliable the outcome will be, the Umbrella Organisation for Critical Shareholders said.
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