Kia Motors officials indicted over alleged technology leakage

SUWON, May 10 (Yonhap) -- Nine former and incumbent officials of Kia Motors, South Korea's No. 2 automaker, were indicted on charges of illegally transferring key carmaking technologies to China, the first such case ever brought to light, prosecutors said Thursday.

The nine allegedly delivered 57 types of secret information, including a key car-assembling technology, via e-mail to a local consulting firm established by some of Kia's former workers, from last November until recently.

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