Overview
- The Federal Court in La Plata processed Nélida Bisio and Gabriela Mantecón Fumadó as prima facie “partícipes necesarias” and ordered blocks on their assets plus bans on leaving the country.
- The judge set fiscal embargos of 500 billion pesos on each woman and required monthly police check‑ins, surrender of travel documents, and limits on contacts with ANMAT/INAME staff.
- Laboratories HLB Pharma and Laboratorios Ramallo produced the implicated fentanyl lots, and lab analyses found Klebsiella pneumoniae and Ralstonia mannitolilytica in ampoules and in patient blood cultures from an outbreak first detected in May 2025.
- The ruling faults delays and deviations from technical procedures by INAME and ANMAT, highlights a January 14, 2025 meeting that postponed enforcement, and singles out Mantecón Fumadó for slow or informal handling of warning letters while describing Bisio as passive.
- The judicial file lists about 134 affected people, roughly 90 confirmed deaths, dozens of querellas and multiple processed company executives; medical‑forensic panels are now examining each case to establish causal links and the court’s measures aim to secure funds for possible civil claims.