Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori on Monday again denied creating a paramilitary group inthe early 1990s to murder suspected rebels.



At the start of his second week on trial here, Fujimori insisted that he had heard nothing of this from his two main subordinates -- Vladimiro Montesinos and Victor Malca, former chief of the National Intelligence Service and the nation's then minister of defense respectively.



He also said he had never met Santiago Martin Rivas, an army major convicted of heading the paramilitaries, known as the Colina Group.



The prosecution is seeking to prove that links existed between Fujimori and the Colina group blamed for the deaths of 25civilians in two massacres in 1991 and 1992.



Fujimori was also charged with kidnapping journalist Gustavo Gorriti and businessman Samuel Dyer.



The court session ended in the afternoon and will begin again on Wednesday. This trail, covering charges of murder, kidnapping and malicious wounding, is one of three which Fujimori is scheduled to face at the National Special Operations Directorate.



Fujimori was sentenced earlier this month to six years imprison for abuse of power.



Fujimori fled to Japan in 2000 to escape a corruption scandal involving alleged bribes to legislators and lived there for five years. In 2005, he flew to Chile, where he might have been preparing for a return to politics in Peru.



The former Peruvian leader was arrested in November 2005 in Chile and extradited to Peru in September.



Source: Xinhua