34 arrested for selling fake IDs

Police have detained 34 people in Fujian province suspected of selling fake identification certificates to Chinese looking to cross the border illegally, authorities said on Thursday.

The arrests came during a swoop on a suspected hideout by more than 200 public security officers from the provincial capital, Fuzhou, as well as Beijing, and Zhejiang and Guangdong provinces, on May 16.

"It could be the biggest illegal border-crossing operation discovered in our province this year," said Zhang Jie, a publicity official of Fuzhou's frontier defense corps, which are special police units directly under the Ministry of Public Security.