An AFM team late yesterday searched a tug boat which arrived from Libya and handed the crew to the police.
The boat did not seem to be carrying immigrants when it was intercepted by the Armed Forces off Delimara. The crew claimed they were fishing and that they had left from Libya, a claim which the AFM disputed.
The authorities are also skeptical about the fishing claim since they found the boat to be too clean.
The boat was for several hours seen off Delimara alongside two AFM patrol boats.