Steven Lyons, 45, arrived in Amsterdam today and is expected to be sent to Spain where he is on their wanted list.Crime boss Steven Lyons frogmarched to plane for deportation from Indonesia to Spain
New footage shows Steven Lyons being marched onto a plane by immigration officers in Indonesia for deportation.
The 45-year-old crime boss had his hands tied as he was escorted through the airport by an officer who was holding him by the neck.
Lyons was arrested at Bali airport on Saturday, March 28, after he was booted out Qatar.
He was repatriated on a flight from Denpasar to Jakarta yesterday and then placed on a flight to Amsterdam at 11.42am today.
Lyons was deported(Image: Ngurah Rai Immigration Office
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From there he was expected to be deported to Spain to face charges related to drug trafficking and money laundering. It comes after reports emerged that the Lyons boss had been on Spain’s wanted list for two years.
However Spanish sources claim the kingpin will not be flown immediately to Spain as he is expected to delay his onward journey to Madrid by refusing to be extradited.
A well-placed Spanish source, refuting claims Lyons would immediately be flown on to Spain, said today: “Lyons was due to touch down in Amsterdam late this morning after being deported from Indonesia.
“The procedure is that he will be formally detained on a European Arrest Warrant issued by a judge in Spain once he arrives in Holland and the normal extradition process will then kick in.
“He may agree to be extradited and in that case he’d probably be in Spain in around 30 days.
“But the feeling is he’s unlikely to agree to be returned to Spain and that means another hearing will have to be organised which is likely to delay the procedure.”
The insider said a court in Malaga had issued the European Arrest Warrant for Lyons, but insisted he was wanted by other countries. Full details of the reasons the Scot was made a wanted man are expected to be released later.
Lyons is a wanted man in Spain(Image: Ngurah Rai Immigration Office
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Lyons extradition from Indonesia was delayed several times last week on Wednesday and Thursday. The reason for the second delay remains unclear, with authorities citing the “sensitivity” of the case, however, local media reported that the latest delay was linked to an ongoing police investigation.
Speaking today, the Head of the Ngurah Rai Immigration Office, Bugie Kurniawan, said: “This deportation is a concrete step in our commitment to safeguarding national sovereignty.
“We will not allow Indonesian territory, especially Bali, to become a haven or base of operations for international criminals. Strict immigration oversight is the front line in safeguarding national security from potential foreign threats.”
Indonesian authorities allege Lyons “suspected leader of an international criminal organisation” and was “suspected of being the mastermind controlling members of his network in operations involving the management of fictitious companies and money laundering”. They claimed the organisation used shell corporations in Spain, Scotland, England, Dubai, Qatar, Bahrain, and Turkey, among other countries in Europe and the Middle East, to launder money.
Steven Lyons flanked by two cops at Bali Police HQ. (Image: Copyright (c) 2026 Shutterstock Editorial. )
Authorities are hunting two of his associates who also landed at the airport with him. Cocaine dealer Steven Larwood, and associate Lewis Wark flew alongside Lyons but were not detained as they did not have Interpol Red Notices. Officials added the two men to the travel ban list as they continue to try and locate them.
Steven Lyons in orange jump suit with his hands tied together. (Image: MADE NAGI/EPA/Shutterstock)
Immigration officials said Spanish Interpol had identified them as members of the same criminal cartel but they are not on any arrest warrants or Interpol Red Notice.
Lyons’ arrest was part of a joint investigation involving Indonesian, Spanish, and Scottish authorities, said Bali Police Chief Daniel Adityajaya. Police Scotland confirmed his arrest and said the force is working with partner agencies across Europe.
His wife Amanda was also arrested by cops in Dubai at the couple’s luxury apartment on Monday. The pair were cuffed 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 this week and were charged with a variety of offences, including organised crime.
New footage has emerged of the arrest
Spanish cops also carried out coordinated swoops on properties in Malaga and Barcelona at the same time and arrested five people. Europol confirmed a £600,000 villa and two plots of land were seized in Turkey as part of the operation.
Authorities have yet to issue official confirmation but online sources linked to the gangland underworld claim Spanish police want to speak to Lyons about organised crime and two murders in Madrid and Malaga in 2024.
In August 2024, a Serbian man was shot dead at a house party in the upscale resort of Estepona, near Malaga. The 36-year-old, who was carrying a fake passport, was identified as a man with links to criminal organisation based in the Balkans.
The owner of the villa, which previously belonged to a famous footballer, admitted on TV to organising “private parties” for wealthy guests, including gangsters from the so-called ‘Costa del Crime’, who would move on to the villa from the nightclubs of Marbella.
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At the time, the Policía Nacional investigation led them to the UAE where a 43-year-old British national was picked up on an international arrest warrant. His identity was not released but it was reported he had been in court in the UK over an attempted murder.
Spanish detectives are also reportedly interested to speak to Lyons over the shooting of Borja Villacís, the brother of the former deputy mayor of Madrid.
The 41-year-old was gunned down in June 2024 while awaiting trial for drug trafficking and money laundering. Three people have been charged but the shooting was linked to criminal groups.
Lyons fled Scotland in 2006 when his family became embroiled in a bloody war with the rival Daniel crime clan.
Ross McGill (Image: X)
The feud between the families reignited last year when an associate of Mark Richardson, 39, ripped off Ross McGill, 32, by paying for a £500,000 consignment of cocaine with fake bank notes. McGill went after Richardson and his associates in the Daniel clan with a wave of firebomb attacks at properties and businesses linked to the gangsters.
Windows were also shot out and senior members of the rival crime groups were targeted in machete attacks. 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.
Gangland firebombings have continued this week. Yesterday, Lambhill Motors on Balmore Road – previously owned by crime clan boss David Lyons and was the scene of a triple shooting in 2006 – was targeted. Michael Lyons, 21, was blasted with bullets in the attack, and two other men, including Steven Lyons, were seriously injured.
Police are probing the firebomb attack at Lambbill Motors, formerly known as Applerow(Image: Reach plc)
This came following two gangland incidents that unfolded in Glasgow and Edinburgh on Easter Monday. A 31-year-old associate of Edinburgh crime boss Mark Richardson was allegedly attacked with blades on Drummohr Avenue in Wallyford, near Musselburgh, around 11.15pm. Two men, aged 38 and 43, have since been arrested in connection.
A campervan was also torched on Bardowie Street belonging to a woman from the Daniel mob and a white Audi was set on fire on Crowhill Street. The two incidents happened just minutes apart in the Daniel clan’s home turf in the Possilpark area of the city.
A van and a car were also petrol bombed outside a property belonging to one of Richardson’s crew last week. The Richardson hood was targeted in the blazes outside his house at Niddrie Marischal Crescent on Tuesday, March 31.
Lyons, who had been living a luxury lifestyle in Dubai, was booted out the UAE last year after authorities became tired of the headlines Scottish gangsters were generating.
Police Scotland’s Operation Portaledge probe into the gang war has led to over 60 people being arrested, and a number of thugs have already been slapped with lengthy jail sentences.
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