Kia India, a subsidiary of South Korea’s Kia Corporation $000270.KS, is at the center of a criminal investigation involving the systematic theft of automotive parts from one of its manufacturing plants in Andhra Pradesh. According to official police documents, two former employees are suspected of orchestrating the disappearance of 1,008 car engines, with an estimated total value of $2.3 million, over a span of three years. Investigators believe the engines were siphoned off through collusion with local scrap dealers.