 However, an Italian military court in La Spezia sentenced him "in absentia" to life imprisonment on September 28, 2006 and subsequently gave their files to the German authorities.As a result, he was brought to Munich 1 State Court in October 2008.On August 11, 2009, Scheungraber - who had always denied the charges - was found guilty on 10 counts of murder and was sentenced to life imprisonment in a trial expected to be one of the last Nazi war crime trials.