Japanese officials have raided Mitsubishi Motors’ office after the latter admitted to falsifying fuel economy data.Â
The carmaker had previously revealed its employees altered data to enhance mileage rates on more than 600,000 vehicles.Â
The inaccurate tests involved 157,000 of Mitsubishi’s own cars and 468,000 vehicles produced for Nissan.
According to BBC, a Japanese government spokesman said they were treating it as an “extremely serious case” and that it had ordered the company to submit a full report.
Authorities have set 27 April as the deadline for Mitsubishi Motors to hand over the report on the inaccurate testing.
Officials searched its plant in the central Japanese city of Okazaki.
The raided office is the company’s second largest plant in Japan and is a manufacturing hub as well as a research facility.
It is yet unclear how Mitsubishi’s announcement impacts its heavy vehicles business.
