ED crucial information on hair smuggling, points out to bigger network

  • | Tuesday | 7th September, 2021

Allegedly, under-invoiced human hair is being dispatched out of the country through air cargo from metros, and several people who have not yet come under the ED`s scanner are involved in the smuggling process. 

Findings made in the human hair smuggling case by the ED has been crucial in debunking a huge smuggling trap.

Allegedly, under-invoiced human hair is being dispatched out of the country through air cargo from metros, and several people who have not yet come under the ED`s scanner are involved in the smuggling process.   

A FEMA case was recently booked by the EF after conducting searches on around 10 human hair exporters for under-invoicing and hawala transactions. While Mizoram has emerged as a key transit point for the racket`s banking operations, several key players in the city are still operating from Hyderabad to Myanmar. 

One hair exporter said, "Some are declaring $60 in Indian customs. They are getting money through hawala only. Smugglers are trying to ship through other companies which were not raided by ED. Several are operating from Parsigutta, LB Nagar, Nagole, Bowenpally, and Yadagirigutta," as quoted.

Kotagiri Sridhar, an MP in the Eluru Lok Sabha, wrote a letter to the Prime Minister with regard to the issue. He stated that around 99% of human hair wigs and hair extensions used worldwide were once sourced from India because of the unique quality of hair.

However, traders from Myanmar and Bangladesh are now buying directly from middlemen. Hair is being smuggled out of India at an undervalued price of as little as one dollar per kg against the usual price of $80, verified in the recent export data.

The raw hair is then processed with the help of cheap child labour within the border, hence being dispatched to China for manufacturing finished products. These are then labeled `Made-in-China` and sold in their markets. 

Sridhar`s letter also read: "In Eluru parliamentary constituency alone, over the last six years, 15,000 direct unskilled jobs were lost. This would run to 8,00,000 in the country. Representations were made to several agencies. There is a need to stop the smuggling to Chine via Myanmar."   

 


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