<p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr">Argentine authorities have charged three people in the death of British artist Liam Payne, a former member of the band One Direction, who fell from a third-floor hotel balcony in Buenos Aires last month.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> The charges come after extensive investigations that included a wide review of camera footage, including 800 hours of recordings. Authorities did not disclose the names of the three defendants, but confirmed that investigations are ongoing to prove the extent of their involvement in the incident.</p><h2 style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <span style="color:hsl(187, 48%, 51%);">Criminal charges: supplying drugs and abandoning a person in distress</span></h2><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> Argentine authorities have charged one of the defendants with abandoning Payne after his death, in addition to supplying and facilitating drug use.<br><br> According to the prosecutor's office, the person accompanied Payne on a daily basis during his trip. Authorities also accused two others, including a hotel employee, of providing cocaine to Payne on two occasions. All three defendants were ordered to surrender their passports and are banned from leaving the country pending further investigation.</p><h3 style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> <span style="color:hsl(187, 48%, 51%);">Interrogations and surveillance: details of the investigations and the position of the authorities</span></h3><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> After Payne's death, five people were questioned, including three hotel employees and two women who were with him on the day of the incident but left the hotel before it happened.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> Police reports indicated that their teams were called to the hotel due to “aggressive behavior” that Payne may have been under the influence of drugs and alcohol, before he fell from the balcony. The investigation is still ongoing to uncover the circumstances of the incident, amid anticipation by the public to solve the mystery of the incident.<br></p>