Members of the Catalan regional police force, Los Mossos d’Esquadra, arrested five Guardia Civil policemen as part of a police crack down on a gang that specialised on highway robbery; i.e., robberies carried out on the nations motorways.

The illicit co-operations between the crooks and policemen consisted of the gang giving tip offs as to where the highjacked cars had been abandoned in exchange for information from the Guardia Civil policemen involved concerning how police investigations into these crimes were going and who was under suspicion.

(News: Barcelona, Cataluna)