Scottish crime boss Steven Lyons pictured cuffed with cable ties in Bali

Scottish crime boss Steven Lyons has been pictured cuffed with cable ties and flanked by officers at a police headquarters in Bali.

The high-profile gangland figure was arrested at the city’s I Gusti Ngurah Rai Airport by immigration officers on Saturday.

Ngurah Rai Immigration Office said the 45-year-old had arrived in Bali on a flight from Singapore.

He was flagged as the subject of an Interpol Red Notice and taken into custody during immigration checks.

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On Monday, it emerged that his partner, Amanda Lyons, was arrested in Dubai.

On Tuesday, crime boss Lyons was pictured in an orange jumpsuit and cable ties being escorted by officers at the Bali police headquarters in Denpasar.

His arrest comes as nine men have appeared in court following a Police Scotland international gang-busting operation on Friday, targeting alleged members of the Lyons crime group.

Officers executed warrants at addresses in Glasgow, Bellshill, Cumbernauld, Gartcosh, Caldercruix, Coatbridge and East Whitburn as part of a pre-planned day of action targeting serious and organised crime.

The operation, which is not linked to the ongoing criminal feud in Scotland, was coordinated with the Spanish Guardia Civil, who raided addresses in Malaga and Barcelona.

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The gang is suspected of running a prolific criminal network involved in the transport of large quantities of drugs, including hundreds of kilograms of cocaine, into Scotland.

Steven Lyons is a high-ranking member of the group, which has been locked in a war with the Daniels gang for more than two decades.

Steven Lyons was arrested in Bali Ngurah Rai Immigration Office

Arrest in Dubai

Steven Lyons is believed to have been arrested in Dubai last September, along with Ross McGill, Stephen Jamieson and Steven Larwood.

They were reportedly released in October and ordered to leave the Gulf state immediately.

Jamieson, 42, was extradited from Dubai in December and later appeared at Glasgow Sheriff Court charged with being involved in serious organised crime and being concerned in the supply of controlled drugs.

Spain shooting

Eddie Lyons Junior and Ross Monaghan were shot and killed at an Irish bar in Spain in July last year.

Both men had known connections to gangland crime in Scotland and were shot by a masked gunman who fled the scene.

The pair had been involved in a rivalry with the Daniel organised crime group for more than two decades.

Eddie Lyons Junior survived an attempt on his life in 2006 when he was ambushed by Kevin “Gerbil” Carroll in Bellshill, North Lanarkshire.

Eddie Lyons Junior and Ross Monaghan STV News

That attack followed another incident widely regarded as having taken the Lyons vs Daniels gang feud to a new level.

In November 2006, Carroll allegedly used a 4×4 and a rope to topple the headstone of Eddie Jr’s brother Garry, who died of leukaemia in 1991 aged eight.

Eddie Jr’s cousin, Michael, was shot dead in 2007 after two hitmen from the Daniels opened fire at Applerow Motors, off Balmore Road in the Lambhill area of the city.

The hitmen were enforcers for the Daniel crime clan, believed to have been led by the late Jamie Daniel.

Monaghan was arrested as a suspect in the 2010 shooting of Carroll, who was gunned down in a brutal gangland assassination in the car park of Asda Robroyston.

But he was acquitted after the judge at his 2012 trial ruled there was insufficient evidence.

Monaghan was also cleared of attempting to defeat the ends of justice by disposing of the two guns used in the shooting and torching the getaway car.

Monaghan fled to Spain in 2017 after he was shot outside a primary school in the Penilee area of Glasgow.

He had just dropped his daughter off at St George’s Primary School.

Later that year, Monaghan and Eddie Lyons Jnr were both cleared of being involved in a brutal street attack on three men outside the Campsie bar in Bishopbriggs.

The case collapsed after prosecutors withdrew the charges against them following two days of evidence.

Gang war

Police Scotland’s Operation Portaledge was launched to crack down on serious organised crime after a gang feud spanning the central belt ignited in March 2025.

The Scots allegedly arrested in Dubai – Steven Lyons, Ross McGill, Stephen Jamieson and Steven Larwood – are believed to be involved in the feud.

Jailed cocaine kingpin Mark Richardson has also been linked to the case, with a group named TMJ issuing a bounty, offering a reward for a violent attack on the Scottish drug lord.

The special task force has arrested a total of 63 people in connection with the organised crime war.

Earlier this month, Marshall O’Hara, 21, Fraser Stewart, 22, and Aiden McLaughlin, 21, admitted to firebombing houses and a carpet firm linked to the Daniel crime family.

Arran Reid, 27, was jailed for eight years and four months in December after being caught as part of the police operation.

He admitted attacking David McMillan with a machete outside of his home on May 22 and firing a revolver recklessly at a window of a house in Inch, Edinburgh, on June 12.

Liam McDermid, 25, was given six years and nine months in November for using a metal detector to try to find a Glock pistol which had been hidden close to a primary school in Edinburgh.