Theft: BPO denies having UK bank clients

Under a cloud over alleged leakage of financial information about clients in the UK, the Indian BPO company Infinity e-Search on Friday said it neither handled any financial information nor had accounts of a British bank.

Distancing itself from the controversy, Rahul Dutt, managing director, Infinity said, "We have no bank clients in UK."

Moreover, he said the company does not handle financial information for the clients. "We don't deal with any information that is classified. We are into things like web development."

Another 'theft' rocks Indian BPOs

Dutt said that the employee, who has been accused of involvement in the fraud, has been with the company for three months and was currently on probation. "We have asked him to give an explanation about his alleged role in the scam by 5.30 pm today," he said.

On the reports that the British police has launched an investigation, he claimed that no law enforcement agency from UK has approached the company.

British Tabloid The Sun had claimed on Thursday that its undercover reporter was sold top secret information on a 1,000 accounts and numbers of passports and credit cards for about 2,750 pounds and was asked for another 275 pounds later (approximately a total of Rs 2.5 lakh).

The BPO firm's lawyer Deepak Masih said Karan Bahree, the employee, had been working as a junior content writer in the company for three months and he did not have any access whatsoever to sensitive or confidential data.

"We learnt about this data theft in the newspapers this morning like everyone else. We have not contacted the police because we are not the complainants. No one has contacted us...we are not hiding and we have nothing to hide," he said, adding Bahree did not turn up at the office on Friday.