Police identified Amanda Lyons – partner of Glasgow mob’s captured kingpin Steven – as an “active member”.
The glamorous gangster wife behind the crumbling Lyons criminal network has been unmasked.
Police identified Amanda Lyons – partner of Glasgow mob’s captured kingpin Steven – as an “active member” of his crime gang. It’s understood the 38-year-old is in shock over the collapse of her luxurious Costa del Sol lifestyle.
It comes after we reported last month that Amanda Lyons was cuffed by cops in the United Arab Emirates just days after Steven Lyons was nabbed by police in Bali.
She faces years in prison following the pair’s arrest and the unravelling of his criminal empire following a worldwide investigation. A picture published by the Record shows Amanda happily pouting in designer clobber.
It follows her arrest in a raid by UAE police last month – just as her husband was being captured in Bali over allegations of laundering £26million through his organised crime gang. Amanda is the daughter of Richard ‘Ricky’ Hayes, a leading crime figure on the Costa Del Sol.
He began his criminal career selling heroin in Glasgow’s Easterhouse, running a network of street dealers including Derek ‘Deco’ Ferguson – who would go on to become Scotland’s most wanted fugitive.
Police are believed to have swooped on Amanda as she looked set to fly to Indonesia from Dubai to be reunited with her fugitive husband, who was held by immigration officers when he flew into Bali from Singapore.
Officers in Spain stormed into the mob’s compound on the Costa del Sol and seized items.
Spanish cops, who described Amanda as an “active member” of Steven’s crime gang, earlier this week branded the group “a highly sophisticated criminal organisation characterised by violence” as they made their first official comments since the arrest of its leader.
Crime kingpin Steven, 45, was held on an European Arrest Warrant on Wednesday after being deported from Indonesia and put on a plane to Amsterdam. The mobster is expected to be extradited to Spain to face charges related to drug trafficking and money laundering.
In a statement referencing Steven Lyons by his initials, they said: “The Civil Guard, as part of an operation called Armorum, have smashed the structure in Spain of the so-called Lyons Clan, one of the most violent criminal organisations that have originated in Scotland in the last few decades.
“The detainees include S.L, the leader of this organisation mainly dedicated to drug trafficking and money laundering, as well as the commission of violent crimes of all types.
“The operation has concluded with the arrest of 14 people in different countries. The authorities have also acted in Indonesia with the support of the Civil Guard where SL was arrested and subsequently flown to Holland and a European Arrest Warrant issued by the Spanish authorities executed.”
Lyons was detained on March 28 at Bali Airport after he was deported from Qatar. It comes as reports emerged that he has been on Spain’s wanted list for two years.
Amanda was also arrested by cops in Dubai at the couple’s luxury apartment. 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.
Spanish cops burst into 18 properties in Barcelona and elsewhere in Spain in linked raids. There have been 15 arrests overall, including ten in Scotland.
Officers from Police Scotland 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.
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