Overview

• Federal Judge Ernesto Kreplak processed 17 defendants tied to contaminated injectable fentanyl, ordering preventive detention for six, including Ariel García Furfaro, Diego García Furfaro, Javier Martín Tchukrán, José Antonio Maiorano, Carolina Ansaldi and, under house arrest, Nilda Furfaro.
• A record asset embargo of ARS 1 trillion was imposed on Ariel García Furfaro, with additional embargoes of up to ARS 500 billion for other key figures identified in the ruling.
• The court found that bacterial contamination occurred during production at Laboratorios Ramallo and cited tainted lots 31202 and 31244 containing Ralstonia mannitolilytica/pickettii and Klebsiella pneumoniae NDM‑5 that matched patient isolates.
• The case proceeds under charges of adulterating medicinal substances with resultant deaths, with the ruling attributing at least 20 fatalities to the adulteration as broader probes review roughly 96 deaths across several provinces.
• The Chamber of Deputies’ 31‑member commission, led by Mónica Fein with Silvana Giudici and Victoria Tolosa Paz in leadership roles, will hear victims’ families and call Judge Kreplak, Health Minister Mario Lugones and ANMAT authorities, with a mandate through December 9.