Argentine police investigating the death of Liam Payne are still searching for the singer’s missing designer watch, it was claimed today. The Rolex was not discovered during last week’s raids on the homes of three men suspected in an ongoing criminal investigation.

The respected Argentine publication La Nación says that searches of the homes of two women with whom Liam spent his final hours, who are being treated as witnesses and have not been charged with a crime, also turned up nothing.

This weekend it was reported that the Hotel CasaSur Palermo would be searched again for the expensive watch.

According to La Nación, the operation in the “next 72 hours” will focus on the former One Direction singer’s luxury suite in case the Rolex, which investigators suspect may have been stolen, was lost the first time.

Liam was said to have been seen wearing the Rolex in CCTV footage and other photographs added to the prosecution’s case files shortly before he died at around 5pm local time on October 16.

A judicial source told La Nación: “We know from images that have been analyzed that Liam had the watch on the day of his death.

“He had it in one of his hands and he had it at least two or three hours before his fatal fall at the hotel. We looked for him in his hotel room and couldn’t find him.

“The watch was searched at the homes of the three people investigated on suspicion of abandoning Liam and supplying and facilitating drugs, as well as the homes of the two women who were with him in his room on the afternoon of his death. The room remains closed by court order and no one can enter.

“The initial priority was to search the homes of people Liam had contact with before his death for the watch, but a further inspection will now be carried out to see if it remains anywhere in his room.”

Liam’s close friend Rogelio ‘Roger’ Nores protested his innocence after being named locally last week as one of three men under investigation.

Responding to reports identifying him as one of the suspects linked to the drug allegations and allegations that he abandoned Liam before his death, businessman Nores, who had previously been described as the singer’s manager, said in a statement: “I never abandoned Liam.” , I went to their hotel three times that day and left 40 minutes before this happened.

“There were more than 15 people in the hotel lobby chatting and joking with him when I left. I never could have imagined something like this would happen.

“I gave my statement to the prosecutor on October 17 as a witness and since then I have not spoken to any police officer or prosecutor. I wasn’t Liam’s manager. “He was just my very dear friend.”

He added: “I am truly heartbroken by this tragedy and have been missing my friend every day.”

The other two men have also been cited in Argentine media as hotel workers and “drug traffickers.”

Prosecutors said in their statement released last Thursday that three unnamed men were now being formally investigated on suspicion of abandoning a person who subsequently died and of supplying and facilitating drugs.

The statement described one as the person who “routinely accompanied Liam during his stay in Buenos Aires.”

Tests have shown the 31-year-old man had alcohol, cocaine and a prescription antidepressant before he died.

Prosecutors also said they are not treating Liam’s death as a suicide as he was in a state of “partial or complete unconsciousness” and would not have “known what he was doing” when he fell from the third-floor balcony to his death.

They said of the hotel worker and the “drug dealer”: “The second suspect is a hotel employee who must answer for two proven supplies of cocaine to Liam Payne during the time he was at the hotel.

“The third is also a drug trafficker who is being investigated on suspicion of two other clearly proven cocaine supplies at two different times on October 14.”

The singer’s father, Geoff Payne, flew to Argentina two days after his son’s death and returned to the UK with his body last Thursday to help finalize funeral arrangements. The funeral is expected to take place in Liam’s hometown of Wolverhampton.