The second of the two accused for delivering drugs to the british singer Liam Payne Before his death, he turned himself in to authorities on Monday.
The above was reported by a police source on Tuesday.
“The 21-year-old young man was presented at the Police Departmentin Barracas (south of the City of Buenos Aires), after his lawyer informed that his client would make himself available,” the source told the AFP.
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Who is accused of supplying drugs to Liam Payne?
The detainee, identified as David Ezequiel Pereyrawas an employee of hotel CasaSur in which the former member of the band One Direction died on October 16, fall from the balcony of his room on the third floor.
Just like Brian Paizthe 24-year-old former waiter arrested last Friday, Pereyra is accused of “having delivered cocaine for a price” to the artist.
According to a statement from the prosecutor’s office on December 30, the judge Laura Bruniard justified the prosecution of the former waiter by proving that “he received $100 from the victim in exchange for buying drugs from him and that, on another occasion, the British musician sent a car to his home (…) to bring more narcotics.”
In addition to the arrest of Paiz and Pereyra for the crime of supplying narcotics, the judge formally prosecuted three other people, without preventive detention, for manslaughter.
In Argentinaa prosecution is a resolution by the judge in which he estimates that the accused may be responsible for the crime of which he is accused.
According to the prosecution, the other three defendants are the Argentine representative of the artist, the hotel manager and the hotel’s head of receptionwho were subject to an embargo of 50 million pesos ($48,000).
At the time of his death, the musician had consumed alcohol, cocaine and an antidepressant. According to the autopsy results, he died from “multiple traumas” and “internal and external hemorrhage.”
(With information from AFP)