Steven Lyons was detained at the Indonesian island on Saturday.
09:19, 31 Mar 2026Updated 14:09, 31 Mar 2026
Steven Lyons flanked by two cops at Bali Police HQ.(Image: Copyright (c) 2026 Shutterstock Editorial. )
Dramatic pictures show mob Steven Lyons wearing a black mask and high-vis orange prison clothes defiantly staring into the camera with a menacing glare as two cops flank either side of him.
The gangster is led out of the Bali police headquarters with his hands tied together with plastic cable ties as he faces major jail time for running his international criminal empire.
Police in Bali have confirmed that Lyons will now be sent to Spain on Wednesday.
They also confirmed they are hunting for two people who arrived with Lyons but managed to evade detection.
The crime lord was arrested on an Interpol Red Notice at the airport on the Indonesian island on Saturday just days after he was deported from Qatar.
The 45-year-old was detained after a police operation in Spain and Scotland last week led to the arrests of 13 people suspected of being involved in organised crime.
Bali Immigration Office labelled him a “suspected leader of an international criminal organisation”, after he was secured by officers and handed over to police.
Steven Lyons in orange jump suit with his hands tied together.
Steven Lyons is escorted by cops at the Bali Police headquarters in Denpasar, Bali.(Image: Copyright (c) 2026 Shutterstock Editorial. )
Thye added that he was “suspected of being the mastermind controlling members of his network in operations involving the management of fictitious companies and money laundering”.
Police Scotland confirmed Lyons’ arrest on Saturday and said the force is working with partner agencies across Europe.
Police Chief Daniel Adityajaya speaks during a press conference on the arrest of Steven Lyons.(Image: Copyright (c) 2026 Shutterstock Editorial. )
His wife Amanda was also arrested by cops in Dubai at the couple’s luxury apartment yesterday.
The pair were arrested after police in Scotland and Spain carried out a series of dawn raids following a two-year joint investigation into a suspected drug trafficking network.
Officers arrested eight men aged 64, 46, 45, 45, 41, 39, 39 and 35, at addresses in Glasgow, Bellshill, Cumbernauld, Gartcosh, Caldercruix, Coatbridge and East Whitburn at around 4:30am on Friday, March 27.
The men all appeared in court yesterday and were charged with a variety of offences, including organised crime.
Spanish cops also carried out coordinated swoops on properties in Malaga and Barcelona at the same time and arrested five people.
Officers raiding a property in Spain. (Image: Europol)
Europol confirmed a £600,000 villa and two plots of land were seized in Turkey as part of the operation.
The head of the Lyons family was pictured at the weekend as he was paraded by immigration officers and cops at Bali Airport.
The images, released by the immigration office, show the ashen-faced gangster wearing a black t-shirt and green shorts and holding a wash bag. Referred to as SL by officials, he can be seen sitting with his head in his hands surrounded by police. Another image shows a number of officials around Lyons as they parade his capture for the camera.
Steven Lyons holding his head in his hands at the airport. (Image: Ngurah Rai Immigration Office)
Lyons had been living in Dubai after leaving Scotland in 2006 as his family became embroiled in a bloody war with the rival Daniel crime clan.
However, he was expelled the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in September of last year after authorities became tired of the headlines Scottish gangsters were generating.
Dubai cops rounded up Lyons, Ross McGill, 32, Steven Larwood, 42, and another man who can’t be named for legal reasons and booted them out.
The Record reported earlier this year how McGill had a row with another man at a gym in the desert and this was the final straw for authorities in the UAE who do not tolerate crime on their doorstep.
The Lyons and Daniel feud had fizzled out after a number of Steven’s top henchmen were jailed for attacks on their rivals in 2019 but it was reignited last year.
Drugs baron McGill was ripped off by Edinburgh cocaine kingpin Mark Richardson’s crew when they paid for a £500,000 consignment of cocaine with fake bank notes.
Ross McGill.
McGill went after Richardson’s gang and his associates in the Daniel clan with a campaign of firebomb and machete attacks.
Lyons pitched in to help by supplying McGill with targets from within his long standing enemies in the Daniel clan.
The violence culminated in May when Ross Monaghan, 43, and Eddie Lyons, 46, were executed outside a pub in the Costa Del Sol.
Police Scotland insist the deaths were not linked to the gang war but Spanish cops said the shooter was a Daniel clan member. Liverpool man, Michael Riley, 44, stands accused of the double murder and is currently in a Spanish jail after he was extradited last year.
Ross McGill was also deported from Qatar earlier this month and is now believed to be in Russia.
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