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.

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.

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

Toyota’s heavy-duty trucking unit was fined $1.6 billion on Wednesday over fraudulent emissions testing and other violations.

Toyota subsidiary Hino Motors has agreed to pay $1.6bn (£1.3bn) and plead guilty to deceiving US regulators about the amount of emissions produced by its diesel engines, according to the firm and US government agencies. The truck company will also be banned from exporting its diesel engines to the country for five years.

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.

US officials late Wednesday announced a $1.6 billion deal with Toyota subsidiary Hino Motors to settle charges it deceived regulators about the amount of emissions spewed by its diesel engines.

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

The Justice Department charged Toyota truck unit Hino in U.S. District Court in Detroit, and NHTSA levied a civil penalty over emissions data cheating.

Toyota subsidiary Hino Motors will pay $1.6 billion to settle a fraud case that alleged the company deceived regulators about emissions amounts from its diesel engines, U.S. officials have announced.