Overview

• Federal Judge Ernesto Kreplak processed 17 executives and technicians from HLB Pharma Group and Laboratorios Ramallo for adulteration of medicinal substances under Article 201 bis.
• Pretrial detention was ordered for Ariel García Furfaro and five others, including Diego García Furfaro, Javier Martín Tchukrán, José Antonio Maiorano, Carolina Ansaldi, and Nilda Furfaro (domiciliary).
• Ariel García Furfaro was hit with an embargo of 1 trillion pesos, with additional embargoes and asset inhibitions imposed on other defendants.
• The court found that bacterial contamination occurred at Laboratorios Ramallo in lots 31202 and 31244, with Malbrán and forensic tests detecting Ralstonia and Klebsiella and reporting genomic matches to patient isolates.
• The ruling attributes at least 20 deaths to the adulteration while roughly 96 fatalities are under review, and a 31-member congressional commission led by Mónica Fein has begun work to examine regulatory failures and will call the Health Minister and ANMAT officials.