Hyderabad: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday conducted a search in nine locations in Hyderabad and thunder in place of some human hair exporter because it was allegedly involved in an under-invoice violation, smuggling and exchange rate.
The source said that the search was made at the Vikas company, Naresh hair exporter, Hrithik Exim and several other companies.
Ed also searched for Ibrahim Patel’s hair exporter, Nay La family export director.
Excellent hair is another company under the scanner.
Searches are made in eight locations in Hyderabad and one in Guntur.
Ed has conducted an investigation with the help of the Customs Department and GST officials.
Human hair is good quality, goli, being exported.
Toi has published a series of stories about human hair smuggling and under-invoices to Myanmar, China and Bangladesh.
Read Alsonow, Chinese traders smuggled human hair from indiahuman hair exporters and processors from India had explored fraud in which Chinese citizens smuggled human hair from Hyderabad to China, through Myanmar.
Indian exporters have accused that a group of Chinese importer has made Hyderabad Hub from illegal trade with stock hair under the invoice sent from Hyderabad Air Cargo to China, Myanmar and Bangladesh under value.
The export market of human hair is around Rs 6,000 to 8,000 crore per year.
Hyderabad has become a hub for racket raw hair under an invoice and illegal smuggling.
Smuggling from Hyderabad to Myanmar occurred through Medh, azwal boring cities and further to China.
Human hair is auctioned from the temple, Church Temple in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana and raw hair (Goli) collected from domestic households and salons used for export and smuggling.
Apart from the air cargo, smugglers took the train route from Secunderabad to Kolkata or Guwahati and then on the road to Myanmar.
A strong link was found between Hyderabad gold smugglers and myanmar human hair smugglers.
Hawala operators are also involved.
Human Hair Smuggling: Ed Searches 8 Locations in Hyderabad
