Aug. 5: A team of prosecutors from Germany will reach the city tomorrow in connection with a multi-crore fraud case involving BPO personnel operating from Salt Lake Sector V and cheating people in Germany, Holland and Norway.

Juregan Lewandowski, public prosecutor, office of Osnabruck, Germany, and Alexander Sirowi, a police officer of Landeskriminalamt, 30169 Hannover, will depose before a magistrate in the Bidhannagar court.

The German police contacted the Interpol in March after it found a group from India duping several Germans of thousands of euros on the pretext of cheap internet solutions. They were acting on a complaint by Heidrun Bohamer, a German citizen.

The Interpol forwarded the case to CBI, which handed it over to the CID.

The cops zeroed in on Akash Singh, a BPO employee at Webel Park in Sector V, and arrested him on June 7. Four others - Richa Pipalwa, Vikramjeet Pandher, Nilesh Rastogi and Subhajit Pal - were arrested soon after.

CID cyber wing officers said the arrested offered debugging solutions and installed online software solutions for overseas customers. After gaining their trust, the techies would sign annual maintenance contracts with the customers for which they received payment online. The group would install a software on the customers' computers without their knowledge to control all online transactions.

"Among those duped were Dennis Kremer, Frads Dahlgaard and Heidrun Bohamer, all Germans," said an officer. "The money was sent to a person's Standard Chartered Bank account in Bahrain."