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Contaminated Fentanyl: Ariel garcía Furfaro Was Prosecuted and Seized for a Billion Pesos

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The owner of HLB Pharma and 16 other executives are charged with the offences of adulteration of medicinal substances in actual competition with adulteration of medicinal substances in a manner dangerous to human health.

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The owner of HLB Pharma and 16 other executives are charged with the offences of adulteration of medicinal substances in actual competition with adulteration of medicinal substances in a manner dangerous to human health.

·Buenos Aires, Argentina
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The Federal Criminal and Correctional Court No. 3 of La Plata, in charge of Ernesto Kreplak, prosecuted 17 persons in the cause of the deadly fentanyl, for the crime of adulteration of medicinal substances that resulted in the death of at least 20 persons. The prosecution is in actual competition with the adulteration of medicinal substances in a manner dangerous to health. The penalty may be up to 25 years in prison. The court decision covers t…

·Buenos Aires, Argentina
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The owner of HLB Pharma and 13 other executives are charged with the crimes of adulteration of medicinal substances in actual competition with adulteration of medicinal substances in a manner dangerous to the health of people resulting in death. García Furfaro will continue to be imprisoned. Federal judge of La Plata, Ernesto Krepak, prosecuted 14 suspects for having had some degree of involvement in the manufacture and distribution of contamina…

The Justice confirmed that Ariel García Furfaro, owner of HLB Pharma, will be held in pre-trial detention while the Justice investigates the 96 deaths that occurred as a result of the administration of contaminated fentanyl. In addition, he was seized for $1 trillion pesos. Weeks ago, in his inquest statement before Judge Ernesto Kreplak, García Furfaro said that, if the fentanyl is contaminated with bacteria, “he put them another person.” In th…

Almost five months after the first complaint about the deaths following the application of fentanyl contaminated with bacteria, the Federal Justice made a key decision on the procedural situation of the 17 accused. The case investigates 96 deaths and damage to the health of other critical patients in five Argentine provinces. The most complicated is the businessman Ariel García Furfaro, arrested more than a month ago. Owner of the HLB and Ramall…

Ernesto Kreplak, federal judge of La Plata, ordered on Thursday the prosecution of fifteen people linked to the laboratories HLB Pharma Group S.A. and Ramallo S.A. in the case that investigates the contamination of fentanyl consignments that caused more than ninety deaths in the country. The magistrate established that the owner of the companies, Ariel García Furfaro, his brother Hernán García Furfaro (member of the laboratory management) and hi…

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la Nacion broke the news in Buenos Aires, Argentina on Thursday, September 25, 2025.
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