Anselmo Sevillano Amaya Europe’s biggest drug trafficker in Hashish has been hiding in a villa in Estepona.

The drug runners, dressed as Civil Guards,
 hid the launch full of drugs at the Isla Cristina dockyard in Huelva 


Europe’s biggest drug trafficker in Hashish has been hiding in a villa in Estepona.
Anselmo Sevillano Amaya, who was on the run, has now been arrested. With 60 mobile phones, GPS and satellites, he controlled ‘an incalculable business’ according to the police. A member of the Guardia Civil who was in his pay has also been arrested.
His helpers often used to be dressed up in Guardia Civil uniforms.

He has been living in the Atalaya Park urbanisation in Estepona with his wife and small son, neighbour to the bullfighter Curro Romero. He had five expensive cars in the parking area, one of them a Porsche, but away from home he was said to have behaved in a less ostentatious way.

His luck ran out on Tuesday when the Judicial drugs police from Huelva arrested the 33 year old while he was resting at home with his wife. Described by police as one of the largest hashish traffickers in Europe, if not the largest for the level of merchandise he dealt with, and the contacts and time he had been in the business. They say it is impossible even to guess the amount of the drug he has brought into Spain, but there was thought to be a consignment arriving every week.

It was the last consignment which was intercepted; 3,620 kilos of the drug with the arrest of 11 people in Isla Cristina in Huelva.

Rapid launches were generally used to bring in the drugs, with the crew dressed as Guardia Civil, in perfect uniforms. He paid 600,000 € for the consignment in Morocco, and it would have brought him 4 million on the market.

He purchased a yacht to bring in drugs during the Virgen del Mar regatta in Huelva, with the craft escorted by several of his men on jet skis.

In Estepona the police found his office, with 26,000 € in cash, six nautical GPS systems and two satellite phones. He used this equipment to communicate with his boats at sea, as well as with contacts in Morocco and Holland, one of the main destinations for his drugs.

Anselmo already has a four year prison sentence from an early bust last year, but he fled before being admitted into jail. He was also arrested in July 2005 with his partner at the time, Sergio Mora Carrasco, and in that case police discovered that two of their force had been purchased.