8 Jul, 2016 @ 19:35
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Thirteen arrested for overbilling Spain’s state rail company in corruption probe

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Trains-ArrivaSPANISH police have arrested 13 people on suspicion of overbilling state rail company Adif by more than €82 million.

The eyewatering bill is allegedly for works carried out on the high-speed rail link between Madrid and Barcelona.

The investigation, launched following a complaint from the debt-ridden Adif, saw employees from both cities implicated.

All of them had taken part in the construction of a railway station in Barcelona.

Spain has already spent billions to build the second largest high-speed rail network in the world after China’s.

Laurence Dollimore

Laurence Dollimore is a Spanish-speaking, NCTJ-trained journalist with almost a decade’s worth of experience.
The London native has a BA in International Relations from the University of Leeds and and an MA in the same subject from Queen Mary University London.
He earned his gold star diploma in multimedia journalism at the prestigious News Associates in London in 2016, before immediately joining the Olive Press at their offices on the Costa del Sol.
After a five-year stint, Laurence returned to the UK to work as a senior reporter at the Mail Online, where he remained for two years before coming back to the Olive Press as Digital Editor in 2023.
He continues to work for the biggest newspapers in the UK, who hire him to investigate and report on stories in Spain.
These include the Daily Mail, Telegraph, Mail Online, Mail on Sunday and The Sun and Sun Online.
He has broken world exclusives on everything from the Madeleine McCann case to the anti-tourism movement in Tenerife.

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