EU prosecutors search Spanish rail bodies in a second fraud probe after fatal high-speed crash
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The European Public Prosecutor’s Office searched Adif, the State Railway Safety Agency and the Court of Auditors over EU-funded safety, signalling and communications work on Spain’s Madrid–Seville line after 69 people died near Urda on 28 October; resigning transport minister Óscar Puente blamed a computer failure then human error. A first EPPO case opened in March after 46 died in the Adamuz crash on the same route, focused on EU track-maintenance funds, with no public update. EU Transport Commissioner Apostolos Tzitzikostas called two serious Spanish rail accidents within a year very worrying; the EPPO published no findings or misspending details yet.
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