Hong Kong Customs officers arrested four people Tuesday and seized 200,000 pirated optical discs worth 5 million HK dollars (642,178 US dollars) in a raid on a local building.

Three women and a man aged 24 to 43 were being questioned, said a statement from the Hong Kong Customs.

The discs mainly involved Japanese and Korean television series and were intended for sale at local retail outlets, according to the statement.

(Xinhua News Agency April 16, 2008)