Muzaffarpur, Dec. 1: Two State Bank of India (SBI) officials, associated with the bank’s Gobarshahi branch in Muzaffarpur, have been suspended for their alleged involvement in the November 24 fraudulent transaction of Rs 29.25 crore.

A special SBI team probing the transaction has found the two officials — field officer Suman Kumar and special clerk Shiv Shankar Mishra — guilty of a technical slip that led to the wrongful transfer of the amount from Bharat Coking Coal Limited’s SBI account in Dhanbad to National Farmers’ Fertilizer Co-operation’s account with Punjab National Bank in Modinagar, Uttar Pradesh.

A five-member central team of SBI, Mumbai, including deputy general manager Y.K. Lumba, regional manager P.K. Mishra and cyber experts Rupesh Kumar Sinha and Anand Kumar examined the technical slip. The team found that the transfer could be prevented following timely intervention of bank authorities.

Besides being suspended, Suman and Shiv have been asked to join duty at Deoghar in Jharkhand and Bhagalpur respectively.

On November 28, SBI had shifted a clerk, B.K. Choudhary, and a messenger, Raktu Singh, from its Gobarshahi branch. Sources said top bank officials, including the cyber experts, stumbled upon the loopholes following examination of data gathered from computers in the bank.

The cyber experts revealed that Suman and Shiv had access to some passwords that were leaked and used by hackers.