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From the Bulgarian 'Crypto Queen', to the Czech businesswoman who killed her husband, who are the most wanted women in Europe (Photo)

2022-12-26 08:54:23Aktualitet SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX

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They make up just five per cent of Europe's most wanted fugitives, but are wanted on charges ranging from hiring hitmen to running organized crime gangs.

One of the fugitives, accused of defrauding investors in a cryptocurrency pyramid scheme, has been offered a reward for information on her whereabouts. 

These are the most wanted women in Europe, according to a list from Europol, which publishes dozens of profiles of missing criminals across the EU, writes the Daily Mail.

Tania Gomez is known online as the owner of the dog rescue charity HundGärin, but according to Europol she engaged in a wide range of illegal activities.

The 30-year-old has been wanted by Swedish authorities since March 2021 for an ongoing investigation into serious drug-trafficking and money-laundering offences. She is believed to be linked to an organized crime group in Stockholm, for which she distributed and transported large quantities of narcotics and cash.

Despite her social media persona as a caring dog girl who rescues strays and feeds them, she is accused of being involved in a network of 'irregular ownership of animals and their transportation abroad', according to Europol.

Another Bulgarian 'Cryptoqueen', Ruja Ignatova, is not only on Europol's list, but is also one of the ten most wanted by the FBI - who are offering a reward of up to $100,000 for information leading to her arrest.

Dr Ignatova, 42, is accused of using her cryptocurrency OneCoin as a multi-level marketing scam to target investors around the world between 2014 and 2018. Investigators believe Ignatova was tipped off in 2017 after a US district court in New York issued a warrant for her arrest, causing her to travel to Greece and disappear.

Dubbed the 'Cryptoqueen', Ignatova, a lawyer, co-founded OneCoin in 2014 as the 'Bitcoin killer', luring investors to buy bundles of her cryptocurrency. Investigators said a key part of her business model was to get investors to sell additional packs of OneCoin to friends and family, which was essentially a pyramid scheme to pay off those at the top.

"Ignatova targeted individuals who may not have fully understood the ins and outs of cryptocurrencies but were impressed by Ignatova's impressive resume and the marketing strategies employed by OneCoin," the FBI said in its statement. 

The Bulgarian-born Ignatova is the 11th woman to be placed on the FBI's most wanted list in its 72-year history. She is also wanted in Germany through an Interpol red notice, which warns that she may have surgically altered her appearance to avoid capture. Investigators said she was living in luxury before traveling to Sofia, Bulgaria, after an arrest warrant was issued for her on October 12, 2017.

Authorities believe she may be traveling on a fake German passport to the United Arab Emirates, Bulgaria, Russia, Germany, Greece or Eastern Europe.

The third missing female fugitive is Czech national Eva Zámečníková, 41, who is wanted in Slovakia after being sentenced in absentia to eight years in prison for hiring a hitman to kill her ex-husband.

In January 2014, the florist paid her friend Martin Adamkovič €50,000 to kill her husband, a soldier she had been married to for just two months. She wanted to take his property.

She allegedly took a gun to commit the murder, but it didn't work, so she changed her plan and told Adamkovič that she would have to strangle her husband with a rope. But he instead handed her over to the police and helped them stage the murder to get enough evidence.

Adamkovič later testified at her murder trial and claimed that Zámečníková was partly motivated by the fact that she no longer wanted to 'feed her husband'. Zámečníková pleaded not guilty and claimed that Adamkovič wanted to take revenge on her for refusing to lend her money. She insisted that no evidence corroborated the information about the planned killing and the reward in question.

The businesswoman was in custody for several months, but was released in August 2014 to give birth to her child. She was found guilty by the Specialized Criminal Court in January 2020, but has since been on the run and is now one of the most wanted criminals in the EU. 

Hungarian Anamaria Radu-Stoica is wanted in her country after being sentenced to ten years in prison.

The 34-year-old, together with two others, founded an organized crime group with the aim of sexually exploiting women. She has been on the run since August 2012. H

Hungarian Andrea Dudla - also known as Eszter Kathona - has been on the run since 2012 after being sentenced to more than 15 years in prison for her involvement in dozens of economic crimes.

In the 2000s, Dudla and two associates pretended to be real companies, creating fake invoices and real-looking balance sheets in order to borrow hundreds of millions of forints from banks. They also sold 4,400 tons of corn for 250 million forints (£610,000), but never delivered any corn. 

At one stage it was believed the 43-year-old could be hiding in Thailand, where one of her crime partners was caught.

The only female fugitive from Europol's 2022 most wanted list who has been caught so far is Viviana Andrea Vallejo Gutiérrez, who was arrested in Malchala, Ecuador on charges of human trafficking, drug and money laundering.

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