{"id":880302,"date":"2026-04-08T14:19:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T14:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/880302\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T14:19:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T14:19:15","slug":"indonesia-deports-suspected-mafia-boss-steve-lyons-wanted-in-spain-on-drug-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/880302\/","title":{"rendered":"Indonesia deports suspected ‘mafia boss’ Steve Lyons, wanted in Spain on drug charges"},"content":{"rendered":"

Indonesia has deported a British national arrested on the resort island of Bali last month for alleged transnational drug trafficking and money laundering in Spain, immigration officials said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

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The 45-year-old, identified only by his initials SL, was arrested at Bali’s Ngurah Rai International Airport last month after arriving from Singapore, after officers noticed he was on Interpol’s wanted list.<\/p>\n

He was flown to Jakarta on Tuesday, and then on to Amsterdam, Bali immigration office said in a statement, referring to the man as a “mafia boss.”<\/p>\n

“We will not allow Indonesian territory, especially Bali, to become a hideout or operational base for international criminals,” the airport’s immigration head, Bugie Kurniawan, added.<\/p>\n

British media identified SL as Scottish crime boss Steven Lyons.<\/p>\n

Lyons has been on Spain’s wanted list for about two years, following a murder case there in 2024.<\/p>\n

Bali police chief Daniel Adityajaya said Lyons was wanted in Spain as the alleged “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, Lyons is alleged to have led 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.<\/p>\n

Widyatmoko said that police in Scotland and Spain had carried out raids in connection with Lyons\u2019 case resulting in multiple arrests with the help of Europol, a European Union law enforcement cooperation hub, and also Turkey, the Netherlands and the United Arab Emirates.<\/p>\n

Scottish media have reported that Lyons survived a 2006 shooting in Glasgow that killed his cousin and later moved to Spain before settling in Dubai.<\/p>\n

Last May, his brother and an associate were shot and killed in a suspected gangland shooting at a beachfront bar in Fuengirola, southern Spain.<\/p>\n

Lyons arrived in Bali with two companions who are believed to still be on the island, said Bugie Kurniawan of Bali\u2019s immigration office.<\/p>\n

He said Spain’s Interpol has identified them as members of the same criminal cartel but they are not on any arrest warrants.<\/p>\n

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