Salt Lake police arrested two director-cum-owners of a call centre in Sector V for allegedly duping Spanish, German and Australian nationals posing as officials of a software giant, police said.

The police have identified the two as Shuvashis Jana and Rahim Passa. The other owner-directors are on the run, the police said.

A team from the Bidhannagar Commissionerate conducted a raid at the fifth-floor office of Dreambolic Technology Pvt Ltd at EN Block in Sector V on Monday afternoon.

The cops found at least 50 men and women working at the office.

“The arrested duo have confessed that they used to dupe foreign nationals by calling them posing as officials of a software firm. They would warn them against a virus attack on their computers and offer help. After given access to the computer,s they would siphon-off money from their accounts using various payment gateways,” said a police officer.