Buenos Aires, January 28 (NA) – The final number of victims, fatalities, and survivors vaccinated with contaminated fentanyl will be known in the coming days. Sources in the case informed the Argentine News Agency that before the end of the Judicial Fair, investigators will send the samples to the Forensic Medical Corps. "This was a major purification work carried out during the recess," a source close to the file remarked. The investigation continues while Ariel García Furfaro and shareholders of HLB Pharma and Ramallo S.A. laboratories are detained and prosecuted. García Furfaró, a close associate of the Kirchner family, is considered "criminally responsible as an accomplice to the crime of adulteration of medicinal substances" for causing the deaths of 20 people, "in conjunction with the crime of adulteration of medicinal substances in a dangerous manner for health, also as an accomplice." The businessman is alleged to have acted together with 16 members of the staff of both laboratories through "the making of various decisions related to the manufacturing, distribution, and sale in the adulteration of batch 31202 belonging to the opioid, which was "destined for public health use, with a production order issued on December 16, 2024".
"The adulterations of the medicinal substance consisted of its contamination from a manufacturing process characterized by multiple shortcomings, including several critical ones, regarding which there were multiple alerts that were not heeded," the document accessed by NA highlights.
