Updated at 4.35pm: Customs officers said on Wednesday they have smashed one of Hong Kong's biggest operations of pirated optical discs.
At 9am after two months of investigation, 70 officers raided three industrial units in San Po Kong, Cheung Sha Wan and Tsuen Wan arresting four Hong Kong men, aged between 20 and 51.
''We believe we have netralised the syndicate after shutting down their halfway storage, production line, workshop and warehouse,'' Customs and Excise Department spokesman Richard Law Chi-kong said.
The 200,000 optical discs and production equipment (including 80 CD writers) seized were worth $7 million.
''The illegal optical disc production wokshop in Cheung Sha Wan is the largest workshop smashed by the Customs so far,'' Mr Law said.
''We have seized many discs in the past but this is the first time that we have uncovered so many CD writers,'' he added.
