After the fall of the military junta, Orlando Ramon Agosti, together with others in positions of responsibility during the dictatorship, was indicted and put on trial.
His trial - and that of the overall military junta - opened on 22 April 1985. Orlando Ramon Agosti was accused of 88 murders, 581 illegal arrests, 278 cases of torture of which seven resulted in death, 110 theft in aggravating circumstances and 11 abductions of minors.
On 9 December, he was found guilty of eight specific counts of torture and sentenced to four and a half years in prison.
In December 1990, however he was given a pardon by President Menem.
Orlando Ramon Agosti died in 1997.
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