“In this plant there are missing engines.”
Something like that must have said in the plant Kia in India where an audit discovered that there were missing engines. Specifically 900 combustion blocks that nobody had news and that They would have disappeared during the last three years. With the passage of time the investigations have followed their course and, with them, they have discovered that the hole was even greater than expected.
They point out in Motorpasion that the last investigations suggest that the engines would have disappeared because, during five yearstwo employees have stolen them from the factory itself. And, specifically, it has been a total of 1,008 combustion blocks that have raffled the safety of the plant at some point throughout it.
2.3 million in combustion engines
The investigations, evidently, wondered how two operators could get more than a thousand engines out of the Kia plant without anyone noticing. And the answer seems obvious: they were not alone.
According Police have unraveled what happened have discovered that, at least, they calculate that Six people They were involved. Two of them inside the factory, two others who worked on their transport and one last couple were in charge of their distribution.
The workers had positions of responsibility within the motor line and point to The Economic Times that falsified company documentation as invoices and papers in which the output of the engines was registered to transfer the doors. One of these workers is detained and is being investigated but the second is missing.
Once this first control is over, it is believed that engines They were transferred in a truck to Nueva Dheli. That is, a trip of more than 2,000 kilometers since it is necessary to cross a good part of the country. Trucks used false registration plates and indicate in Reutersalready in the city they were distributed selling them as they had left the factory. That is, completely assembled.
The money that points to a hole in KIA accounts of 2.3 million dollars, according to the police, was used for personal expenses, purchase of homes and solve past debts. The robbery realized in Kia following some strange movements registered by the security and documentation cameras that did not square.
Regarding punishment, in Motorpasion They point out that the two employees They have not yet been accused of a specific crime for which they will have to wait for the trial. However, Local media They point to sentences that could exceed 10 years in prison once the process ends.
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