One of two people accused of supplying drugs to British singer Liam Payne before his death in October 2024 in a Buenos Aires hotel has been arrested, theAFP police sources. The man, identified as Braian Paiz, is accused of delivering cocaine to Liam Payne two days before the singer fell to his death from his hotel room balcony, and is one of five people charged in the case.
Paiz’s home, in Budge, Buenos Aires province, was searched by the police and the detainee was taken to court. The prosecution declared on Monday that Mr. Paiz was “accused of having delivered cocaine” to Mr. Payne, whom he had visited at his hotel on October 14 and whom he had “accompanied to room No 310, entering with him. He stayed there for almost five hours.
“We spent the night, we got high… something intimate happened,” he told Telefe News. In November, Braian Paiz denied in an interview supplying drugs to Payne, while admitting to meeting him and spending time with him in his room.
The Argentine courts established that there had been “supply of drugs for money” and on Monday ordered the provisional detention of two of the five people prosecuted, including Paiz. “Three of the accused were charged without pre-trial detention for manslaughter, and the other two for the offense of supplying drugs” with pre-trial detention, the prosecution declared.
These are “RLN, agent of the victim (in Argentina) and who accompanied Payne on this trip to Buenos Aires in order to renew his American visa; the hotel manager, GAM, and the hotel reception manager, ERG”. They are punishable by a sentence of one to five years in prison, according to the prosecution.
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