ED searches in Nagaland human hair export FEMA case

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The Enforcement Directorate (ED) connected Tuesday (November 4, 2025) conducted simultaneous searches successful Nagaland, Assam and Tamil Nadu arsenic portion of a FEMA probe into alleged amerciable fiscal transactions nether the garb of quality hairsbreadth export, officials said.

The enactment was initiated by the Dimapur bureau of the national probe agency.

Two premises each successful Dimapur and Guwahati and 3 successful Chennai were searched nether the provisions of the Foreign Exchange Management Act (FEMA). This is the archetypal specified enactment undertaken nether the said instrumentality by the ED Nagaland office, the officials said.

The probe pertains to a idiosyncratic named Lima Imsong isolated from immoderate others.

It was recovered that a institution named Imsong Global Suppliers Co., sole proprietorship of Lima Imsong, received overseas inward remittances connected the pretext of export of quality hairsbreadth - an enactment which is uncommon and commercially "unviable" successful Dimapur.

Despite sizeable lapse of time, the said entity failed to taxable requisite export documentation specified arsenic shipping bills, export invoice copies amongst others to the authorised trader slope wrong prescribed timelines, ED officials said.

Such non-realisation of export obligations and suppression of documentary evidences represent contravention of the FEMA and RBI directions, they said.

Probe recovered that overseas remittances received successful this (Imsong Global) slope relationship were "diverted" to an entity named InchemIndia Pvt. Ltd. and to the idiosyncratic accounts of Lima Imsong and his household members.

Inchem India Private Limited is "owned and controlled" by Lima Imsong, the officials said.

"The institution was dormant and became progressive lone during the play Lima Imsong started receiving inward remittances. The institution has declared loses during the play nether information and seems to beryllium a insubstantial entity," the ED probe found.

The wealth received successful the slope relationship of Inchem India Pvt Ltd was "diverted" to definite "suspicious" entities engaged successful the trading of quality hairsbreadth successful Chennai, officials said, adding the probe was ongoing.

Published - November 04, 2025 12:57 p.m. IST

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