The Enforcement Directorate (ED) carried out coordinated searches across Nagaland, Assam and Tamil Nadu on November 4 as part of an investigation into alleged illegal foreign transactions disguised as human hair exports.

Officials confirmed that the operation was led by the agency’s Dimapur office, marking its first action under the Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA). Raids were conducted at two premises each in Dimapur and Guwahati, and three locations in Chennai.

The probe focuses on Lima Imsong and others linked to a firm named Imsong Global Suppliers Co., a sole proprietorship of Imsong. According to the ED, the company received foreign inward remittances claiming to be payments for the export of human hair — a business the agency described as “uncommon and commercially unviable”

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