It comes a day after Interpol issued a red notice for Sirul (pic), who left for Australia last October.
A spokesperson for the Department of Immigration and Border Protection said it has detained "an unlawful non-citizen" in Brisbane.
"The Department is aware of the Malaysian authorities interest in this individual, however due to privacy reasons cannot comment further," said a statement by the department.
Australian officials have previously said they would refuse any request to extradite Sirul to face the death penalty, saying it would violate the country's laws.
A red notice by Interpol signifies authorities are attempting to seek the location and arrest of wanted persons with a view to extradition or similar lawful action.
On January 13, Sirul did not turn up at the Federal Court, which allowed the prosecution's appeal and sentenced him and Chief Inspector Azilah Hadri to death, overturning their acquittal by the Court of Appeal in August 2013.
It was reported that Sirul had left the country two months earlier and did not have enough money to return to Malaysia.
Federal Court judge Suriyadi Halim Omar said the prosecution had proved its case to implicate the two with Altantuya's murder..
The Mongolian, who worked as a translator, was brutally murdered with her remains, believed to have been destroyed by C4 explosives, discovered in the outskirts of Shah Alam.
Former political analyst Abdul Razak Baginda, a confidante of Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak, was charged with abetting Azilah, but was acquitted in 2008. The government did not appeal.
- TMI
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