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Lyons was wearing a face mask when he was escorted from Bali police headquarters in Denpasar on 29 March [EPA]<\/p>\n
The following day Lyons was photographed, with his hands bound by cable ties, being led from police headquarters wearing bright orange overalls and a black face mask.<\/p>\n
The Ngurah Rai Immigration Office, together with the NCB Secretariat of Interpol Indonesia, confirmed Lyons was flown from Denpasar to Jakarta on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
He then boarded a flight from the Indonesian capital to Schiphol, which landed shortly after 10:30 BST.<\/p>\n
Reports from Spain later said Lyons is now being held in the Netherlands on a European Arrest Warrant (EAW), which was issued by a judge in Malaga.<\/p>\n
The warrant signals the start of the formal extradition process but it is understood there could be a delay before he is flown to Spain.<\/p>\n
In a release confirming the move the Ngurah Rai Immigration Office described Lyons as a “mafia boss and Interpol fugitive”.<\/p>\n
Bugie Kurniawan, head of the office, said: “This deportation is a concrete step in our commitment to safeguarding national sovereignty.<\/p>\n
“We will not allow Indonesian territory, especially Bali, to become a haven or base of operations for international criminals.<\/p>\n
“Strict immigration oversight is the front line in safeguarding national security from potential foreign threats.”<\/p>\n
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Lyons’ hands were bound with cable ties when he was pictured the day after his arrest in Bali [EPA]<\/p>\n
Bali police chief Daniel Adityajaya previously told reporters Lyons was alleged to be the leader of “a large-scale transnational criminal organisation engaged in drug trafficking and money laundering”.<\/p>\n
Untung Widyatmoko, secretary of Interpol’s Indonesia bureau, said his criminal group operated in countries including Spain, Scotland, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain and Turkey.<\/p>\n
Lyons and his wife are both wanted by the authorities in Spain.<\/p>\n
The couple previously lived in the country before moving to Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.<\/p>\n
Their arrests came the day after a joint Scottish-Spanish operation targeted alleged members of the Lyons crime group in a series of simultaneous raids in Bellshill, Glasgow, Gartcosh, Whitburn, Caldercruix, Cumbernauld, Coatbridge, Barcelona and the Malaga area.<\/p>\n
Steven Lyons is the head of the Lyons clan, which has been involved in a bloody feud with the rival Daniel group for more than 20 years.<\/p>\n
It was reported last month that Lyons had been arrested in Bahrain<\/a> – five months after being released from custody in Dubai<\/a>.<\/p>\n But in the weeks that followed, details of his whereabouts were shrouded in mystery – until he stepped off a flight in Indonesia.<\/p>\n After being stopped in the international arrivals area, Lyons was handed over to I Gusti Ngurah Rai Airport Area Resort Police.<\/p>\n It later emerged two associates, Stephen Larwood and an unnamed man, arrived on the same flight as Lyons but managed to evade detection at the airport.<\/p>\n Larwood was previously arrested in the same Dubai operation that targeted Lyons.<\/p>\n The pair were released in October and told to leave the Gulf state with immediate effect.<\/p>\n Police in Bali said Larwood and the unnamed associate were not listed on the red notice but were both believed to be members of the Lyons crime group.<\/p>\n There has been no update on their whereabouts.<\/p>\n In a statement following Lyons’ arrest in Bali, the Ngurah Rai Immigration Office said: “Based on intelligence data, SL is strongly suspected of being the leader of an international criminal organisation.<\/p>\n “He is suspected of being the mastermind behind the operation of several fictitious companies and of being involved in money laundering.”<\/p>\n A Police Scotland spokesperson said: “We are aware of the arrest of a Scottish nominal in Bali and we are working closely with European partners.”<\/p>\n In 2006, Steven Lyons survived a shooting at a garage in Lambhill, in the north of Glasgow, which claimed the life of his cousin, Michael Lyons.<\/p>\n He later moved to Spain before settling in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.<\/p>\n Lyons’ criminal alliances include ties to the Dubai-based Kinahan crime group.<\/p>\n He is understood to have forged a relationship with founder Christy’s son, former boxing promoter Daniel Kinahan, while living in the Costa del Sol.<\/p>\n Stephen Dempster, producer of Kinahan: The True Story of Ireland’s Mafia<\/a>, previously told BBC Scotland’s Scotcast<\/a> that by the mid-2010s the Lyons group had become bigger and wealthier by tapping into the cartel’s global network.<\/p>\n Last May, Steven Lyons’ brother, Eddie Lyons Jnr, and Ross Monaghan were shot dead in a beachfront bar<\/a> in Fuengirola on the Costa del Sol.<\/p>\n Both men had spent the evening watching the Champions League final before they were targeted by a lone gunman.<\/p>\n Michael Riley, 44, from Liverpool, has been accused by Spanish police of the murders.<\/p>\n He had challenged an extradition bid but the Crown Prosecution Service confirmed in October that he had given his consent to be taken to Spain to face prosecution.<\/p>\n In the days after the double shooting a Spanish National Police detective said the suspect was a member of the rival Daniel gang.<\/p>\n But Police Scotland have maintained there is nothing to suggest the murders in Spain are linked to the ongoing gang war or that it was planned in Scotland.<\/p>\n The raids in the early hours of 27 March resulted in eight arrests in Scotland and five in Spain.<\/p>\n