Hyderabad: What the enforcement directorate found in the case of human hair smuggling is only the tip of the iceberg.
Apart from the revised price provided by the Plastic Export Promotion Board for Export, human hair that lacks invoices is being sent out of the country through air cargo from Metros.
More people from Hyderabad who have not arrived under the scanner are involved in smuggling.
Ed recently ordered FEMA cases after searching around 10 human hair exporters for under-invoice and hawala transactions.
Some key players in smuggling are still operating from Hyderabad to Myanmar.
Mizoram has emerged as the main transit point for banking operations for rackets.
Hair exporters tell Toi: “Some declare $ 60 in Indian customs.
They only get money through Hawala.
Smugglers try to send through other companies, which are not raided by Ed.
Some operate from Parsigutta, LB Nagar, Nagole, Bowenpally and Yadagirigutta.
“Eluru Lok Lok Sabha MP, Kotagiri Sridhar, in his letter to Prime Minister Narender Modi, said:” About 99% of human hair wigs and hair extensions throughout the world have been sourced from India because of unique hair quality.
Myanmar and Bangladesh traders now buy directly From the intermediary.
They smuggle it or import from India at a price that undervalued only one dollar per kg as an assumption at the actual price of $ 80 as verified in recent export data.
They then process raw hair with cheap child workers on the border and send them to China to produce finished products, which in turn sells like I made in China.
“Furthermore, Sridhar wrote,” in Eluru parliamentary elections only, for the past six years, 15,000 unskilled direct jobs were lost.
This will run to 8.00,000 in this country.
Representation is made for several institutions.
There is a need to stop smuggling to China through Myanmar.
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