LIMA, Peru (AP) — Peru's Supreme Court has issued its second international arrest warrant for disgraced ex-president Alberto
 Fujimori, according to radio reports Friday.

 Justice Jose Lecaros told the Radioprogramas radio station that he sent the warrant to Interpol Thursday for charges that Fujimori
 illegally paid his former spy chief Vladimiro Montesinos $15 million to leave his post without a fight.

 Fujimori has been in self-exile in his parents' native Japan since November 2000, when a corruption scandal surrounding Montesinos
 ended his 10-year rule.

 Japan granted Fujimori citizenship shortly after his arrival and has refused to extradite him on the first arrest warrant, which charges
 that he sanctioned a paramilitary death squad.

 Japanese law prohibits the extradition of citizens to face trial for crimes committed in other countries. Despite that, the justice said he
 was hopeful.

 ``We hope that in this new process, with other charges and the existence of other types of evidence, they will proceed to arrest him''
 and extradite him, Lecaros said.

 Prosecutors allege that Fujimori signed a secret decree in September 2000 to divert $15 million in defense funds to pay off
 Montesinos, the ex-president's top aide for a decade.

 At the time, Fujimori was under pressure from public opinion and other governments, including Washington, to fire the spymaster.
 Montesinos reportedly demanded the $15 million as severance pay.

 Fujimori also faces an international arrest warrant accusing him of homicide and forced disappearance for allegedly sanctioning two
 massacres by a paramilitary death squad in the early 1990s. He is also charged with abandonment of office and dereliction of duty.

 The former president denies any criminal wrongdoing.