Overview

• Ariel García Furfaro completed a six‑hour statement before Judge Ernesto Kreplak, denied responsibility for the tainted fentanyl, and accused former apoderado Andrés Quinteros of deliberate contamination while also criticizing ANMAT.
• Federal investigators maintain multiple detentions in the case and will decide García Furfaro’s procedural status in the coming days as the evidentiary phase continues.
• Santa Fe’s Health Ministry filed a criminal complaint over 68 fentanyl ampoules missing from Hospital Iturraspe’s ICU, with officials confirming the vials are not from the HLB lots tied to contamination.
• The Santa Fe probe includes security footage and stock records, an internal administrative inquiry, and warnings from the hospital director about the public‑health risk if diverted fentanyl circulates outside medical settings.
• Laboratory analyses cited in the judicial file identified Klebsiella and Ralstonia bacteria in HLB/Ramallo lots 31.202 and 31.244, and new litigation in Córdoba alleges an 11‑year‑old suffered severe harm after receiving doses from the implicated supply.