Overview

• Judge Ernesto Kreplak has cited Mayor Pablo Javkin to provide testimony on his claims of drug-trafficking connections among laboratory executives.
• Rosario has secured querellante status, allowing the municipality to file accusations and present evidence in the federal probe.
• Javkin alleges that HLB Pharma and Laboratorios Ramallo executives diverted legally imported fentanyl into illicit markets and maintained ties to trafficking networks.
• Investigators are reviewing lab directors’ prior judicial records, including their involvement in the 2016 Apolo laboratory explosion in Rosario.
• Federal health regulators have linked bacterial contamination in fentanyl vials to at least 52 deaths and seized over 930,000 units since ANMAT’s early-July nationwide ban.