Killers, gun-runners and drug traffickers: Europe's most wanted female criminals unmasked; Europol has released the names and faces of the most wanted female criminals from across the continent.

Byline: Sean Seddon

Europol has released pictures of the most wanted women across the continent.

The cross-border crime agencyhas launched a new campaign to help track down the most fearsome female fugitives on the run in Europe today.

The 18 women are wanted for crimes such asmurder, gun-running, people and drug traffickingand fraud.

Europol spokeswoman Tine Hollevoet said of the 'Crime Has No Gender' campaign: "People think that usually these crimes are not being committed by women, but they are and they are equally as serious as those committed by men."

You can visit the campaign's websitehere.

Skarits is alleged to have carried out real estate and rental fraud in at least 12 cases causing a total loss of 4.2m Euros between 2005 and 2008.

The offences were committed by her as managing director of a property management company against companies and private individuals.

The last known location of Skarits was a hotel in Klosterneuburg, Lower Austria, between June and August 2011.

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The Philippines national was jailed for five years for smuggling 45kg of cocaine from Surinam into the Netherlands.

Wanted since 2010, the 57-year-old's last known whereabouts were Saudi Arabia, where she was spotted in 2014.

The 31-year-old Kazakh is wanted for a series of thefts in Malta in 2014.

Alongside four men, she is alleged to have broken into numerous apartments and stolen cash and jewellery.

Shakirgazieva was arrested in September 2015, appeared in court and remanded into custody.

But after being granted bail in May 2017 she went on the run.

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Wanted by French authorities, Edosomwan is alleged to have been part of a gang of people smugglers who used a form of witchcraft known as 'juju' to force young Nigerian girls into prostitution.

Operating in every major French city, the gang housed in the girls in terrible conditions, charging them exorbitant rents, it is claimed.

The victims, who were run by an older woman known as 'la Mama,' were then prostituted on the streets.

The money they made was then sent back to Nigeria through an informal payment system known as 'hawala'.

Edosomwan, 26, has been on the run since 2017 and could be in France, Belgium or Germany.

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