He is a 24-year-old young man, suspected of being partially responsible for the death of Liam Payne. Accused of having supplied drugs to the British singer before his death in October 2024 in a hotel in Buenos Aires, Braiain Paiz was arrested, according to police sources this Friday.
He allegedly delivered cocaine to the artist two days before the singer’s fatal fall from the balcony of his hotel room, and is therefore one of five people prosecuted in this case. Paiz’s home, in Budge, Buenos Aires province, was searched by the police and the detainee was taken to court.
“Something intimate”
Braiain Paiz allegedly stayed in Liam Payne’s hotel room for almost five hours. “We spent the night, we got high […] something intimate happened,” he told Telefe Noticias. 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 he had “supplied 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.
-Cocktail mortel
“RLN, agent of the victim [en Argentine] and who accompanied Payne on this trip to Buenos Aires to renew his American visa; the hotel manager, GAM, and the hotel reception manager, ERG” are liable to a sentence of one to five years in prison, according to the prosecution.
Liam Payne, 31, was found dead on October 16 following “multiple trauma” and “internal and external bleeding” after falling from the balcony of his hotel room in Buenos Aires, where he had been staying since a few days. According to the investigation, he had consumed alcohol, cocaine and antidepressants before his death.
