Customs have arrested eight people for illicit reprographic activities, seizing 174 infringing photocopies of books, six photocopiers and six binding machines worth $77,000 in total.

Officers raided six photocopying shops in Shau Kei Wan, Quarry Bay, To Kwa Wan, Sham Shui Po, Tseung Kwan O and Tin Shui Wai September 29 to October 10, and arrested five men and three women, aged 20 to 53. Six were shop owners and two were shop assistants. They have been released on bail.

The infringing photocopies seized included school and university textbooks, and reference books.