The former president of Argentina will go on trial for corruption after allegedly taking millions of dollars in bribes, a federal court confirmed on Thursday, Daily Mail reported.

Cristina Kirchner is accused of effectively running a bribery network which was uncovered when a ministerial chauffeur was found with notebooks detailing millions of dollars in bribes paid by businessmen to government officials.

The court accepted a request by judge Claudio Bonadio that Kirchner, now a senator, be held in pre-trial detention, but her partial parliamentary immunity prevents that from happening.

She is protected by lawmakers' immunity from imprisonment, but not from prosecution.

In August, the Senate voted to partially lift her immunity so that investigators could search her three luxury homes - but unless it is entirely lifted, she cannot be jailed even if found guilty.