The person in charge of product development at Mitsubishi Motors Corp. consented to fabricating fuel economy data on its vehicles after being consulted by the manager of the testing subsidiary, the transport ministry and other sources said Friday.
The involvement of an MMC official in the fuel efficiency deception raises the possibility that the automaker itself, not the subsidiary, oversaw the data rigging.
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