Story highlights Protesters have been demanding the President's resignation since April

He denies he was involved in a corruption scheme involving bribes for tax cuts

A judge rules that a former vice president, who resigned in May, will face trial

(CNN) Amid Guatemala's growing political crisis, the court decision was unanimous.

The Central American nation's Supreme Court on Tuesday approved a motion by the attorney general to impeach President Otto Perez Molina over allegations he led a corruption scheme.

The case is now in the hands of the congress, which will decide whether to strip the President of immunity from prosecution, a legal benefit given to some elected officials in Guatemala.

Opposition leaders have failed several times in the past two weeks to get the votes needed to remove Perez Molina's immunity.

According to the Guatemalan Attorney General's Office and a U.N. investigating commission, Perez Molina and a group of close aides within his administration received bribes in exchange for lowering taxes for companies seeking to import products into Guatemala.

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