Toyota Motor unit Hino Motors has agreed a $1.6 billion settlement with U.S. agencies and will plead guilty over excess diesel engine emissions in more than 105,000 U.S. vehicles, the company and U.S.

U.S. officials announced a $1.6 billion deal with Toyota's Hino Motors unit to settle charges it deceived regulators about the amount of emissions spewed by its diesel engines.

The U.S. Justice Department, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), FBI, Customs and Border Protection (CBP), Department of Transportation’s Office of Inspector

Hino Motors has reached a $1.6 billion settlement and agreed to plead guilty to charges of excess diesel engine emissions.

Hino Motors will plead guilty to submitting false emissions data to regulators for more than 100,000 heavy-duty trucks. The company will pay an array of fines, and fix some affected vehicles for free.

A Toyota division that manufactures trucks will pay more than $1.6 billion and plead guilty to violations related to the submission of false and fraudulent engine emission testing and fuel consumption data to regulators and the illicit smuggling of engines into the United States.

The US Federal government and California state authorities brought the charges against Hino and its US subsidiaries after the company voluntarily disclosed it had used falsified emissions test data to get approval to import and sell more than 110,000 diesel engines in the US, most of which were installed in heavy-duty trucks made by Hino.

Under terms of the criminal agreement, Hino Motors agreed to pay $521.76 million in fines and enter a guilty plea to charges. These payments, the business said, include credits linked to the civil settlement, which will completely cover its forfeiture requirements.