Three people have been charged with “crimes of abandoning a person followed by death, supplying and facilitating narcotics” in connection with the death of former One Direction singer Liam Payne last month, Argentina’s Public Prosecutor’s Office announced on Thursday in a statement.

The three people charged in connection with Payne’s death include a person who accompanied Payneon “daily during his stay in the city of Buenos Aires.” That person was charged with “criminal abandonment of a person, followed by death,” a charge that carries a potential sentence of 5 to 15 years in prison, prosecutors said.

Payne died on October 16 after falling from his third-floor hotel room in Palermo, Buenos Aires, according to Argentina’s state police. He was 31 years old.

Two other people each face two counts of “felony supply of narcotics,” prosecutors said. The two accused were a hotel employee believed to have supplied Payne with two supplies of cocaine while he was staying at the hotel and a drug supplier accused of supplying Payne with drug supplies at “two different times on 14 October”. according to the prosecutor’s office.

The inquest into Payne’s death also found that he was “not fully conscious or experiencing a noticeable state of decline or loss of consciousness at the time of the fall”, leading the prosecution to rule out “self-harm of any kind”.

“For the prosecution, this situation would also exclude the possibility of a conscious or voluntary act on the part of the victim, since, in the state in which he was, he did not know what he was doing, nor could he understand it.” said the prosecutor’s office.

“In the moments before his death and during the period of at least the last 72 hours, Payne had only traces of polyuse of alcohol, cocaine and a prescription antidepressant in his system,” the results of the toxicology tests showed, the prosecutor. said.

Payne’s death was caused by “multiple trauma” and “internal and external bleeding,” the result of the musician’s fall from a hotel balcony, the autopsy found, according to the prosecutor’s office.

“All injuries sustained by Payne were consistent with those caused by a fall from a height and that self-injury of any kind and/or physical intervention by third parties was excluded,” the Prosecutor’s Office stated.

The news comes after two officers close to the investigation confirmed to ABC News that police searched the homes of hotel employees and a friend of Payne’s.

In total, nine raids were carried out, with police seizing mobile phones, a hard drive, three laptops and drugs, including marijuana, according to the prosecutor’s office.

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Police raided the homes of hotel staff after Liam Payne’s death

New details emerged this week in the inquest into Liam Payne’s death.

Authorities are now focusing on three people as persons of interest, according to sources close to the investigation.

Sources told ABC News that authorities have conducted nine raids this week. The raids included the homes of two hotel employees, two escorts and a friend of the pop star.

Police seized possible evidence, including cellphones, marijuana, a hard drive and three laptops.

Investigators also searched hotel staff lockers and checked security footage from the hotel.

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Multiple sources told ABC News that hotel security cameras show drug buys involving a hotel employee and a drug dealer.

Payne fell from the third-floor balcony of his hotel room in Argentina on October 16.

Photos of the singer’s hotel room after his death showing a broken TV and drugs scattered around a table.

An autopsy revealed that a dangerous cocktail of drugs was in Payne’s system when he died.

Police are actively looking for the drug dealer.

Payne had long been open about his struggle with addiction.

In July 2023, he posted a video saying he was sober six months after receiving treatment.