Acting Police Commissioner Ray Zammit said this evening that Italian Mafia boss Sebastiano Brunno, who was arrested in Malta this afternoon, did not appear to have committed crimes here, although investigations were continuing.
Brunno was arrested 'in a public place' in Bugibba in the early afternoon after an investigation which had been going on for weeks and which was coordinated with the police in Catania and Siracusa. He was carrying a false Italian ID card at the time of his arrest
There is a request for his extradition.
Mr Zammit said it was not clear how long Brunno had been in Malta.
Brunno, 56, headed the Nardo clan of the Sicilian Cosa Nostra mafia, and led a bloody mafia feud in the early 1990s He has been a fugitive since 2009 and has already been condemned to life imprisonment.