By V. Krishnaswamy. Beijing, China, 06:01 PM IST

A good number of foreigners have been arrested under charges of scalping. For the past few days, many foreigners, who seemed to have a large number of tickets, have been seen selling those for swimming and basketball for prices as high as five to 10 times than the face value.

On Friday, local media reported that Beijing police had rounded up 110 foreign and Chinese Olympic ticket scalpers in a series of raids.

About 340 tickets were confiscated and all the suspects were taken to police stations for questioning, according to Wang Wenjie, a senior police officer with the city's public security bureau, quoted by China Daily.

Some of the alleged scalpers are from overseas, said the police, but did not give numbers on how many.

The press release from the bureau mentioned one foreigner was accused of selling 24 tickets near the Water Cube for up to 10 times their face value.

By V. Krishnaswamy (Staff Writer, © IANS)