Liam Payne seen in security footage with hotel staffer charged with delivering drugs

Newly released information footage of Liam Payne shows the One Direction alum hours earlier his fatal autumn past month, chatting with 1 of the edifice employees present charged successful transportation with his death.

Video obtained by TMZ shows the staffer, who sources accidental is bellboy Ezequiel David Pereyra, stacking chairs successful the basement of Buenos Aires’ CasaSur Palermo Hotel, erstwhile an elevator doorway opens and the 31-year-old popstar pokes his caput out.

The staffer tin beryllium seen ducking wrong a backmost room, past reappearing and shaking hands with someone, presumably Payne, wrong the elevator. Payne again pops his caput retired and the antheral retreats to the backmost country erstwhile more.

Authorities, who are reportedly successful possession of the eerie footage, person yet to corroborate the individuality of the staffer successful the video.

The brushwood occurred conscionable aft 2 p.m. section clip connected Oct. 16, astir 3 hours earlier Payne fell from the balcony of his third-floor edifice room, suffering multiple traumatic injuries resulting successful interior and outer bleeding.

Benzodiazepine, crack, cocaine and a drug cocktail known arsenic “pink cocaine” — often a premix of methamphetamine, ketamine and MDMA — were recovered successful Payne’s strategy astatine the clip of his death, according to a toxicology report.

Though section officials rapidly said Payne had “jumped from the balcony of his room,” the investigating authoritative past week ruled retired suicide, alternatively attributing the calamity to the effects of the drugs.

In the days pursuing Payne’s shocking death, sources successful the prosecutor’s bureau told People an indictment could beryllium forthcoming arsenic they believed employees whitethorn person “sourced the drugs for Payne.” Raids soon followed, some astatine the edifice and the location of Payne’s “friend,” an unnamed Argentine businessman said to beryllium successful his country sometime earlier the fall.

Last week, authorities charged 3 successful transportation with Payne’s death, including the person and an accused cause dealer, who has denied supplying immoderate drugs to the popstar oregon receiving immoderate wealth from him.

The edifice staffer was charged with delivering Payne the drugs, likely successful a soap box.