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ONE of Europe’s most wanted female crime bosses has finally been jailed after six years on the run.
Magdalena Kralka, 30, turned to a life of hooliganism, drug trafficking and money laundering after her gang leader boyfriend was shot dead by cops.
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NewsflashThe blonde Polish thug quickly climbed up the ranks of a notorious drug organisation before landing the top job in 2018.
She took full control of the gang’s financial operations following the arrest of other gang members.
One of her first moves as boss was to help broker drug deals and smuggle over 65kg of cocaine and cannabis across the continent, officials said.
Investigators also accused her of protecting gang members who were on the run as well as recruiting new members to battle rival football hooligan gangs.
Her time as a crime boss came crashing down just a year later as she was forced to go on the run after a police raid in 2019.
Kralka managed to evade capture for six years by hiding out before she was eventually caught in Slovakia.
During this time Interpol even placed her on their Red List of “most wanted” people.
Kralka has now been put behind bars for three and a half years on drug trafficking and money laundering charges.
She was also fined £4,757.
Kralka appeared in court on Monday alongside 10 other gang members.
Prosecutors alleged: “The group also committed acts against life and health, often using dangerous tools such as knives and machetes.
“In this way, they attacked hooligans of one of the Krakow and Lodz football clubs.
“Their activity was characterised by a high degree of organisation and service subordination.”
Despite being known as a lead boss of the group, Kralka was given a heavily reduced sentenced.
Judges ruled that despite participating in the group’s criminal activities, Kralka was not actually in a management position.
They said she was simply carrying out instructions expected of her from the previous leader of the gang, named Mariusz Z.
He was jailed for a decade and hit with almost £21,000 in fines.
It comes after another of Europe’s most wanted drug kingpins was gunned down in Mexico after years of evading arrest.
Marco Ebben, who once even faked his own death to avoid cops, was shot and killed just outside Mexico City last month.
In January, a drug cartel kingpin was also finally arrested in the UK after agents tracked him down through his wife’s boastful posts about their travels.
Luis Grijalba is wanted in the US on charges of exporting cocaine from Costa Rica.
The 43-year-old has already survived two assassination attempts in Costa Rica – including one in which he cowered behind a cherry tree while seven comrades were gunned down.
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