Workers at a Kia plant in India have been stealing engines for five years. Their absence was discovered by chance and now law enforcement is trying to find out who needed more than 900 engines. The notorious crime is reported by India Times.
More than 900 engines are missing from the Kia plant in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. An audit of the enterprise in March 2024 showed only that the engines were simply missing.
The company's management notified the police and a preliminary inspection revealed that the Kia engines were stolen. Initially, law enforcement officers believed that the units had disappeared during transportation to the automobile plant.
However, the documentation showed that they had all been delivered, which means that they had been stolen from the factory's warehouse.
The theft at the factory lasted five years and was carefully planned. The large-scale loss of engines went unnoticed, since the company is quite large - it produces 300-400 thousand cars per year.
Apparently, current or former employees of the enterprise were involved in the crime - without their assistance it would not have been impossible to steal such a large number of engines.
The police are currently searching for the participants in the criminal scheme, and are also trying to establish the purpose of the theft of Kia car engines in such large quantities.