Lyons paraded in handcuffs at Bali airport after Interpol Red Notice arrest
Snared crime kingpin Steven Lyons was finally deported back to Europe today after his stunning arrest in Indonesia and a swoop on alleged members of the Lyons mob.
The 45-year-old’s extradition was delayed multiple times as cops continued working on an ongoing probe.
Lyons was flown back to Amsterdam, according to Husnan Handano, a spokesperson for the island of Bali’s immigration office. He touched down earlier this morning as he faces allegations of dirty money, running global narco routes and murder in Spain. The head of the notorious Glasgow crime gang was pictured being escorted by officials out of Bali on Wednesday morning.
Footage shows him being paraded once again with his hands in cable ties, while also wearing a black neck pillow at the airport. Lyons was arrested on March 28 after arriving at the sun-soaked island’s Ngurah Rai International Airport from Singapore.
Indonesia’s immigration system flagged him through an Interpol Red Notice issued at Spain’s request. It brings to an end the two years he spent on the run from Spanish authorities who joined forces with Police Scotland to bring him in and blitz his criminal empire.
We told how the head of the once-powerful north Glasgow crew was paraded in a jump suit with his wrists bound in cable ties after he was nicked getting off a flight from Singapore to Bali on Saturday. He was then quickly prepared for deportation to Spain where he is wanted in relation to numerous offences linked to serious organised crime.
We told how crimefighters revealed he was accused of “masterminding” hits in Madrid and Malaga in 2024.
The fallen cartel leader is also alleged to be the leader of a “largescale transnational criminal organisation engaged in drug trafficking and money laundering”, revealed Bali police chief Daniel Adityajaya. Lyons is further accused of leading a crime ring that used shell companies for money laundering in Europe and the Middle East, including in Spain, Scotland, England, Dubai, Qatar, Bahrain and Turkey.
As he gets ready to spend time in a Spanish jail, he will find himself in the same justice system as Michael Riley, the man accused of executing his brother Eddie Lyons Jnr, 46, and pal Ross Monaghan, 43, last May.
The alleged hitman, 45, of Huyton, Liverpool, is in a Spanish jail awaiting trial for the double murders in Fuengirola. Sources say the assassinations ended the Lyons’ grip on the drug trade in Scotland, with their head Steven now at his lowest ebb and facing years languishing in a Spanish prison cell. The arrest of his wife Amanda in Dubai hours after he was apprehended was another massive blow.
We told how officers are understood to have swooped on the luxury mansion where the couple had set up home after leaving Spain. A cross-border operation last Friday also saw 13 Lyons clan suspects held in Scotland and Spain. The swoops were linked to an alleged plot to swamp Scotland with “hundreds of kilos of cocaine”. Lyons’ imminent arrival in Spain comes as mystery continues to swirl around the whereabouts of two of his closest allies who fled moments before he was arrested after the trio touched down at the island’s I Gusti Ngurah Rai International Airport on a flight from Singapore.
A manhunt is under way for convicted cocaine dealer Steven Larwood, 42, from Kirkintilloch, and Lewis Wark, of Glasgow. Cops in Bali are reportedly watching all international crossing points, but say their intelligence suggests the mobsters are still at large on the island.
Immigration officials – as well as regional cops – are on high alert and actively hunting the duo. Brigadier General Untung Widyatmoko, Secretary of NCB Interpol Indonesia’s International Relations Division, said: “We’ve also requested information, and I’ve already told Immigration to take action to ban the two.
“Two are still in Bali, and we’re also monitoring their movements – they haven’t left Bali yet.”
It’s understood Larwood and Wark had UK passports when they touched down but law enforcement’s attention was fully on Lyons who was subject to an Interpol Red Notice, unlike his associates. Brigadier General Untung added: “He [Steven Lyons] said the two people were his friends and that he was travelling here with his family. And he met them on the plane.
“They weren’t the ones who left Dubai with me. That’s his statement.”
Brigadier General Untung credited the involvement of Police Scotland and Spain’s Guardia Civil in the arrest thanks to the sharing of “precise global intelligence”.
Prior to Lyons being flown to Spain, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office confirmed they were assisting Lyons as he prepared to head back to Europe.
However they said there has been no contact yet from Larwood or Wark in person or by others on their behalf. An FCDO spokesperson said: “We are in contact with one British man currently detained in Indonesia.
“We have not been approached in relation to any other individuals, but our staff stand ready to provide consular assistance to British nationals abroad 24/7.” We told how Lyons and Larwood were arrested and booted out of Dubai last September along with Scotland’s gang war instigator, ex-Rangers ultra Ross McGill, 32. Vending machine boss Larwood was jailed for four years in 2007 after being nicked with £250,000 of cocaine.
Wark is the son of former security firm boss Joe Wark, who was stripped of £65,000 under dirty cash laws and jailed in 2005 for threatening an accountant.
Bali Police spokesperson Ari Sandy refused to comment on the investigation.
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