Overview
- Sala II of the city’s Court of Cassation revoked the 2025 verdict and acquitted Hugo Eduardo Visca, Luis Daniel Megyes and Dr. Carla Lorena Raffo.
- The panel found it was not established how the virus entered the Belgrano facility or that different actions by the accused would have prevented the deaths.
- The trial court had sentenced the trio on June 30, 2025, to two years’ suspended imprisonment and four years’ special disqualification.
- The appellate ruling annulled partial reparations to families and lifted precautionary measures, including travel bans, provisional suspensions and preventive embargoes.
- Relatives criticized the decision and signaled a possible appeal to the Tribunal Superior de Justicia de la Ciudad, as reports differ on whether the outbreak caused ten or eleven deaths.