Overview
- Federal judge Ernesto Kreplak ordered operations at ANMAT’s headquarters, the INAME offices, and the homes of officials, seizing the phone of ANMAT head Nélida Agustina Bisio and devices from ex-INAME chief Gabriela Mantecón Fumadó, Ana Laura Canil, Mariela Baldut, and Maximiliano Lalín.
- The court said the goal is to preserve documents and devices to evaluate potential state responsibility for the manufacture, distribution, and failed recovery of contaminated HLB fentanyl lots.
- Prosecutor Laura Roteta is investigating whether repeated inefficiency at ANMAT/INAME amounted to negligence, connivance or complicity, drawing on a PIA review of 273 administrative files on HLB Pharma and Laboratorios Ramallo.
- Inspection records show INAME flagged “critical and major” GMP deficiencies at Ramallo in late 2024, yet ANMAT did not immediately halt production or order a preventive recall of lots made afterward, decisions now under scrutiny.
- Victims’ families accused Congress of delaying an investigative commission after Deputy Nicolás Mayoraz missed a key meeting, extending the process by at least 20 days, as genomic analyses link seized vials to patient infections and confirmed deaths near one hundred.