EU investigates fraud in Spain rail funds after fatal Madrid crash

News - South China Morning Post · Nov 6, 2026

The European Union is investigating the possible misuse of EU funds earmarked for the renovation of a Spanish railway line where a train crash killed 69 people, prosecutors said on Friday. The October accident on the Madrid-Seville high-speed line was one of the worst railway disasters in Europe this century, overshadowing Spain’s coming general election this month. A similar investigation into the same stretch of track had already been opened in March in the wake of another accident that...