Colombian ex-president, Alvaro Uribe has announced his resignation as a senator after being held under house arrest and accusation of fraud and witness tampering.

The  68-year-old influential former leader (2002-10) in a letter to Congress, said his decision was due to the impossibility “to return to the Senate”, a post which he has held for six years due to the procedure launched against him.

Seemingly, in an attempt to escape investigation by the Supreme Court, Uribe who heads the Democratic Center party of current President Ivan Duque, had previously resigned in July 2018 after the Supreme Court summoned him with an excuse that the court was being biased against him.

A week after Uribe’s resignation in 2018, he retracted the resignation and the investigation against him continued while the court ordered him to be held under house arrest two weeks ago, saying “from there (he) can mount his defense with all the guarantees of due process.”

However, even if his latest resignation is accepted, he would be investigated still and the case would pass to a lower court.

In his letter to Congress, Uribe grumbled about “the violation of eight procedural guarantees” and claimed to have been the victim of “illegal and malicious wiretaps … and selective leaks to political opponents and journalists.”