Liam Payne Seen Talking to Hotel Worker Charged With Drug Supply

A new report claims that Liam Payne purposely sought out a hotel employee that has been charged with supplying the singer with drugs.

In new footage obtained by TMZ, the interaction between the employee and Payne has been caught on camera. In the footage, Payne can be seen stepping out of an elevator in the basement of the CasaSur Palermo Hotel in Buenos Aires. From there, he can be seen chatting with one of the people that has been charged in connection to his death.

Sources at the hotel have revealed to TMZ that the staffer who shakes hands and chats with Liam in the video is Ezequiel David Pereyra, who works as a bellboy at the hotel and is the person that police say delivered Payne drugs that are hidden in a soap box.

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Police have not confirmed if it is Pereyra in the video that was obtained by the news outlet. However, TMZ has shared that the police are aware of the footage that has been discovered.

In the video, Payne can be seen arriving out of the elevator as he chats with the hotel staff person and they begin to exchange some words. Eventually, they slap hands the staff person heads out through a doorway.

The video is postmarked 3 hours before Payne fell to his death at from the third-story balcony of the hotel. Since his death, it has been revealed that Payne did not commit suicide. At the time of his death, Payne is said to have had pink cocaine in his system as well as crack, ketamine, ecstasy and a form of crystal meth.