Report: London 2012 workers used stolen passports

EIGHTY illegal migrants have been arrested working at the London Olympic site.

GOING UP: Eighty illegal workers have been arrested at London's Olympic Park in the last seven months (Getty Images)

Earlier this week Olympic Delivery Authority chairman David Higgins confirmed more than 7,000 were employed on construction of venues for the London 2012 Games.

Half those arrested – following a crackdown by UK Border Agency – were found to have used fake documents to gain employment, according to a report in today's London Evening Standard.

Others were detained for overstaying their visas or were asylum seekers, who are banned from employment.

The number of arrests, which were made in the last seven months, take the total made at the site to more than 200 since 2006.

The largest number of those arrested came from India, whose nationals accounted for 32 of the total. There were 12 Nigerians, seven Ukrainians, four Kosovans, three Moldovans and two each from Sierra Leone, Albania and Zimbabwe.

Olympic Delivery Authority claim the arrests demonstrate their determination to stamp out illegal working practices.

The UK Border Agency has officials permanently based at the site.