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Judge Kreplak Freezes Assets, Orders Forensics in Deadly Fentanyl Probe

Authorities secured ANMAT’s full warning file to support formal charges against HLB Pharma executives following expert analysis of bacterial contamination in clinical fentanyl.

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Causa fentanilo. El municipio se presentó como querellante en la Justicia para aportar datos de tres empresas con acusados entrelazados
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El intendente Pablo Javkin

Overview

  • Judge Ernesto Kreplak has ordered pericias by the Supreme Court’s Medical Forensic Corps and ANLIS Malbrán to examine patient records, bacteremia cases and production documentation in the fentanyl contamination inquiry.
  • The court froze assets of nine companies and imposed travel bans on 24 individuals, including executives from HLB Pharma Group SA and Laboratorios Ramallo SA such as Ariel García Furfaro and Jorge Manuel Salinas.
  • Prosecutors obtained ANMAT’s complete dossier of over 100 alerts issued in 2025 for GMP non-compliance and traceability failures in HLB Pharma and Ramallo products.
  • Forensic teams are focusing on two December 18, 2024 fentanyl lots (31202 and 31244) contaminated with Klebsiella pneumoniae MBL and Ralstonia pickettii linked to 54 confirmed patient deaths.
  • Officials are preparing formal charges against implicated executives as the federal investigation advances into its critical evidentiary phase.