Ranchi, June 11: Enforcement Directorate (ED) today served a notice on Rungta Projects Limited (RPL), seeking the appearance of six employees in connection with a Chiabasa police complaint of 2009 when four company trucks were seized for transporting iron ore using fake challans.

Two ED officers handed over the notice to a company employee at RPL's office on Bariatu Road here. None of them spoke to the media, but according to sources, the ED notice directed RPL to ensure the physical appearance and verification of as many as six employees listed as directors and additional directors of RPL's sister concerns.

As per records of the ministry of corporate affairs, RPL is the flagship company with as many as 64 entities listed under it with interests in coal, steel, transport and other industries.

ED is investigating alleged money laundering and other criminal aspects in the 2009 Chaibasa case in which fake district mining department challans were used to transport iron ore.

Police had lodged an FIR against RPL company Anindita Steel and its director Dipak Rungta.

In 2010, Chaibasa police lodged another similar case against the company.