BANGALORE: Inspector-General of Police (Economic Offences) Sushant Mahapatra on Wednesday said a team of the Corps of Detectives (COD) would go to the U.K. to investigate the £ 233,000 HSBC scam, depending on information that might be given by HSBC call centre executive Nadeem Kashmiri during a narco-analysis test. Mr. Mahapatra told The Hindu that a court in Bangalore on Wednesday permitted the police to subject Kashmiri to the narco-analysis test. The CoD had filed an application in the Fourth Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate seeking permission.

He said the police had to opt for the narco-analysis test as they did not get much information during the polygraph and brain-mapping tests conducted on Kashmiri last week.

"The answers appeared to be deceptive and the accused was hiding something," Mr. Mahapatra said.

Sources in investigating agency said Kashmiri was being subjected to the test to ascertain whether he had links with terrorist groups.

Kashmiri is accused of having passed on confidential information to accomplices in the U.K. for carrying out fraudulent transactions through ATM, debit cards and telephone banking services.

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