SHENZHEN, April 25 (Xinhua) -- Police have broken up a software piracy ring and seized programs worth an estimated 750 million U.S. dollars in south China's Guangdong Province, local prosecutors said on Friday.

    Police arrested 10 people in a raid on July 6 last year, said an official with the People's Procuratorate of Shenzhen Municipality.

    The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) told China's Public Security Ministry early last year that an organized gang in Shenzhen was suspected of producing and selling pirated software to the U.S., Australia, Canada, Britain, Germany and New Zealand, said the official.

    Around 70 percent of the pirated software was sold in the United States, according to the FBI intelligence, said the official. The FBI provided names and addresses of some suspects to the Chinese police.

    The alleged gang leader, Wang Wenhua, sold the pirated software to agents at home and abroad through Che Tingfeng, head of a computer technology company in Shenzhen, the official said.

    The suspects were in custody and awaiting prosecution.