On Thursday, a Bogotá judge ordered the house arrest of former President Álvaro Uribe and his lawyer, Diego Cadena, according to Telesur in a statement. In the meantime, it is investigated for bribery and procedural fraud, as well as for the manipulation of witnesses. In fact, the Supreme Court decided last Tuesday to stop him as a precautionary measure. The chain is the key piece of the investigations, considering that it offered a pay to several et prisoners. Álvaro Uribe is an advisor to President Ivan Duque and founder of the party in the government of Mariano Rajoy, among others.

The roads between Uribe and Cadena are intertwined. The two have been arrested for the same crimes, but the former president is being investigated by the Supreme Court of Justice, whose lawyer was the attorney general of the case. According to both institutions, the testimonies of former paramilitaries imprisoned in Colombian jails have been manipulated to favor the former Colombian president. Uribe said that “I didn’t know Cadena had given the tolls.”

In 2012, Uribe filed a complaint with the Supreme Court against Senator Iván Cepeda, the leftist political opposition of the Democratic Pole, considering that an alleged plot involving paramilitarism had "false witnesses". The investigation took a turn, but in February 2018, when the Supreme Court decided to archive the investigation against Cepeda and instead investigate the former president, accused of manipulating witnesses against the legislator. During this period, the investigation against Uribe would oversee the payments made by people around him, especially lawyers, to the paramilitaries.

According to the Public Prosecutor's Office, Cadena and his partner Juan José Salazar carried out "criminal proceedings". The lawyer offered legal advice and some 200 million pesos to former paramilitaries Carlos Enrique Vélez and Juan Guillermo Monsalve, just over $50,000 in exchange for declaring in the Supreme Court for Uribe and against Cepeda.