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British singer Liam Payne died on October 16.
Photo: Reuters / CHARLES PLATTAU
Published at 4:44 p.m. EST
A second man suspected of supplying drugs to British singer Liam Payne before his death in October 2024 in a hotel in Buenos Aires, Argentina, surrendered to police on Tuesday.
“The 21-year-old young man went to the Barracas police station [au sud de Buenos Aires] after his lawyer announced that his client would surrender,” police sources told AFP.
He is one of the employees of the Casa Sur hotel, where the ex-member of the group One Direction died on October 16 when he fell from the balcony of the 3rd floor of his room.
On Friday, a first man prosecuted for also “delivering cocaine” was arrested.
The Argentine courts established that there had been “supply of drugs for money” and ordered the arrest of the two alleged dealers. Five people in total are being prosecuted in the investigation into the accidental death of the 31-year-old singer.
Still according to justice, it is “RLN, agent of the victim [en Argentine]who accompanied Liam Payne on this trip to Buenos Aires to renew his American visa, the hotel manager, GAM, and the hotel front desk manager, ERG.
Released on bail, they face sentences of one to five years in prison.
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