Organisers of the Beijing Olympics launched an investigation yesterday of claims that Chinese factories making the official merchandise were abusing their workers...Eagle Leather Products denied the abuse. “Of course it’s not (true),” said Kenneth Chong, the GM of the Hong Kong-based parent company. Patrick Wu, Hong Kong-based manager at Lekit Stationery , said he planned to investigate the matter more closely but the allegations were most likely false. “I strongly believe that our factory would never do such things. If we had done those things we would not have survived from 1977 until the present day,” Wu said. Peter Ho, the CE of Mainland Headwear Holdings, rejected the report out of hand, saying that it was “totally groundless”. The company would welcome “an open and objective assessment of our labour practices … which to our knowledge was not conducted by this organisation”, he said. The fourth business, Yue Wing Cheong Light Products, was unavailable for comment.