Overview
- Argentina’s National Criminal Cassation Court’s Chamber 3 granted Brian Nahuel Paiz house arrest, with Judges Pablo Jantus, Alberto Huarte Petite and Gustavo Alfredo Bruzzone signing the ruling.
- Paiz will await trial under electronic ankle monitoring rather than preventive detention.
- The defense sought the measure citing health issues in a city police holding facility; prosecutors opposed and a trial court first denied the request before the appeal succeeded.
- Paiz and Ezequiel Pereyra remain charged with supplying narcotics for payment, an offense punishable by 4 to 15 years in prison; Pereyra continues in preventive detention.
- The investigation found Liam Payne had alcohol, cocaine and a prescribed antidepressant in his system, and forensic experts concluded he was not fully conscious when he fell from a third‑floor balcony in October 2024.