Overview
- Judge Claudia Puertas ordered partners of NEOFENIX S.R.L. to place six devices at the court’s disposal within five days under threat of charges for unlawful retention.
- The units—two humidifiers and four oximeters, including three originally lent to the hospital—were found installed and operating in intensive care at the Clínica del Centro.
- Investigators documented and identified the equipment but left it in use under a judicial depositary to avoid interrupting neonatal life‑support care.
- The probe, led by interim economic‑crimes prosecutor Ana Inés Salinas Odorisio, began after a June 2025 complaint that matched serial numbers to state property and notes a hospital neonatology staffer as a founding partner of NEOFENIX.
- NEOFENIX publicly denied wrongdoing and claimed the devices were purchased in good faith; Red IMAC’s parent company disavowed any corporate link to NEOFENIX or the case.