Overview

• The Federal Court No. 3 of La Plata processed 17 figures from HLB Pharma Group and Laboratorios Ramallo, identifying Ariel García Furfaro as a coauthor in the adulteration case.
• Preventive detention was ordered for six defendants, including Ariel and Diego García Furfaro, Javier Martín Tchukrán, José Antonio Maiorano, Carolina Ansaldi, and Nilda Furfaro under domiciliary arrest.
• The court embargoed García Furfaro’s assets up to one trillion pesos as part of the financial measures tied to the case.
• Forensic analyses found contamination in lots 31202 and 31244 at the Ramallo plant with Ralstonia mannitolilytica and Klebsiella pneumoniae NDM-5, showing genomic matches with bacteria isolated from patients.
• The charges fall under Article 201 bis with potential sentences up to 25 years, citing at least 20 deaths in the resolution while the wider probe examines 96 suspected fatalities, and Furfaro is also processed in a separate aggravated contraband case.