The Court presided by Magistrate Aaron Bugeja today ordered that Italian mafia boss Sebastiano Brunno is to be extradited back to Italy after he finishes his current jail term in Malta.

The magistrate said that he has 15 days to appeal the decision.

Earlier this month, he admitted to ordering a false identity card and signing it as Natale La Modica and he was sentenced to prison for three months.

The mafia boss is wanted by Sicilian police and was found in Malta, in Bugibba, on October 2. He is known as the head of the NardoCosca, a branch of the Sicilian Cosa Nostra.In 2009, Mr Brunno had been convicted in absentia of the 1992 murder of NicolòAgnello, who was shot dead with a sawn-off shotgun, an apparent casualty of a bloody rivalry between the Nardo clan and the di Salvo clan based in the neighbouring town of Scordia. Italian authorities had included him in the list of the country's most dangerous fugitives.

Originally, Mr Brunno had also been convicted for a number of other crimes, and jailed for life with a year of solitary confinement. But the sentence was eventually revised with a number of charges dropped, and the period of solitary confinement was halved.

Maltese police had spent three months tracking him down in a covert operation which proved successful. Investigations are ongoing to how he entered Malta in the first place.
Footage of the arrest had been made public.