Buenos Aires, April 8 (NA) – The National Criminal and Correctional Prosecutor's Office No. 31 confirmed this Wednesday that the sealed fentanyl ampules found in the apartment of the deceased nurse, Eduardo Bentancourt, belong to the HLB Pharma S.A. laboratory of businessman Ariel García Furfaro, who is being prosecuted in the case of the adulterated opioid. Through an official statement released on the Fiscales portal, Prosecutor Carlos Vasser indicated that the doses belong to certificate No. 53.100, which can no longer be produced after the ANMAT ban, while they had an expiration date "in March 2026". In this regard, investigators confirmed that some of the ampules are part of batch No. 31.077 and the others of No. 31.074, for which reason they contacted the Federal Prosecutor's Office No. 1 of La Plata, where the case for the 111 deaths derived from contaminated fentanyl is being processed, to determine their origins. "Regarding the open fentanyl ampule found with residue inside, it belongs to the Celtyc laboratory and not to HLB Pharma Group. The content of that ampule is still under expert analysis," authorities indicated after the operation carried out in the building on Fray Justo Santa María de Oro street at 2400 in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Palermo. The autopsy revealed that the 44-year-old nurse died as a result of a "hypertrophic and dilated cardiopathy with pulmonary congestion".
The necropsy indicated that the corpse had a puncture with a halo ecchymosis (sign of vitality) in the fold of the right elbow, no signs of defense were detected.
