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Two more Hellenic Railways (OSE) officials accused of delays in implementing a contract for the rail network's signaling and remote command were released Thursday on large bail amounts.

"You don't brake in time," says the Hellenic Railways Organization (OSE), "You don't pick up the trees from the tracks," Hellenic Train replies, as Kathimerini understands.

"The infrastructure is problematic," argues Hellenic Train, "the trains are not maintained, they have breakdowns," OSE claims.

Five people, most of them senior managers at state-run Hellenic Railways Organisation (OSE) which operates the rail network, gained access to the organization's audio files from the night of the train collision at Tempe in the early hours of March 1, 2023, railway executives told Kathimerini on condition of anonymity.

The latest sabotage incident on the network of the Hellenic Railways Organization (OSE), which occurred Monday night, remains shrouded in ambiguity.

This was not the usual theft of copper from electrification cables because the primary goal of the perpetrator/s was to disrupt the network's power and telecommand systems, which had been delivered for use three weeks before.

The railway network is stuck in the mud of Storm Daniel, Hellenic Train, OSE and the state are drowning in disputed debts and the Greek railway service is immersed in such disrepute, it is unlikely to recover its credibility anytime soon.

The Prosecutor at the Larissa Court of Appeals filed criminal charges against four former executives at the Hellenic Railways Organization (OSE) on Monday over the Tempi rail collision that left 57 people dead last February.

The charges have been filed against two former Presidents and Managing Directors, one former Managing Director, and an Executive Board Member of OSE.

Just 10 months before the deadly railway collision at Tempe, central Greece, on February 28, the European Public Prosecutor's Office initiated an inquiry, which culminated in a 106-page indictment.

An executive of Greece' rail network managing company OSE was beaten outside a court in the city of Larissa, in central Greece, on Tuesday after his testimony before an investigative magistrate on the train tragedy in Tempi  that killed 57 people. 

The Greek branch of the European Public Prosecutor's Office (EPPO) is sending its case files to the Greek Parliament regarding a 2014 contract for the completion of key infrastructural works on the national railway, it was reported on Friday.

The former president of the Hellenic Railways Organisation (OSE) appeared before an appellate-level examining magistrate in Larissa on Monday as part of the ongoing investigation into the tragic rail accident at Tempe that claimed the lives of 57 individuals on February 28.