Braian Nahuel Paiz, a Buenos Aires-based waiter, has been arrested in connection to Liam Payne’s dying … for offering Payne with cocaine.

Paiz was booked by authorities outdoors his dwelling — the place he was below home arrest — within the Argentinian capital, days after he was charged in reference to the singer’s passing.

Native authorities raided Paiz’s dwelling earlier Friday earlier than arresting him.

Paiz beforehand admitted to utilizing medicine with Payne. In actual fact, he instructed TMZ … he partied with the “X Issue” alum in his resort room on the CasaSur Palermo Resort twice within the days main as much as Payne’s dying.

He instructed us they consumed cocaine and whiskey … however denied he bought Liam medicine. In actual fact, he says Liam supplied him a Rolex, and he refused.

He is going through between 4 and 15 years in jail for the cost. Paiz says he is being handled as a assassin and seems like a scapegoat.

The waiter was one in all 5 folks charged earlier this week … together with Liam’s buddy Roger Nores and CasaSur Palermo Resort staff Ezequiel Pereyra, Gilda Martín and Esteban Grassi.

Payne fell to his dying from his third-floor resort balcony after consuming whiskey and cocaine all day.

Paiz, Nores and eyewitnesses to Liam’s dying are featured in “TMZ Investigates: Liam Payne: Who’s to Blame?” … now streaming on Hulu.