Hong Kong customs officers have arrested a 33-year-old woman for selling counterfeit Beijing 2008 Olympic Games torches on an Internet auction site, a government press release said on Tuesday.

According to the press release from the Information Services Department of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region government, undercover officers arranged a transaction with the woman in a subway station Monday and arrested her, seizing a fake torch. They seized another four counterfeit torches in a flat.

Two of the torches were made of metal and the rest made of cloth and cotton, the press release said.

(Xinhua News Agency June 4, 2008)