LIMA - Former president Alberto Fujimori, behind bars for crimes against humanity, says his daughter Keiko will be Peru's next president in 2011, local media reported Friday.

"Keiko will be the next president of Peru. Fujimorism will arrive in the (presidential) palace in the next elections," Fujimori said, quoted in the La Razon daily.

The paper quoted his remarks as cited by congresswoman Luisa Cuculiza, who visited the former president at a police base where he is being held.

Keiko Fujimori is a lawmaker and her father's apparent political heir.

On April 7 a three-judge court in Lima found the ex-leader had authorized an army death squad that killed 25 civilians in two bloodbaths in 1991 and 1992, and ordered the kidnapping of a businessman and a journalist in 1992.

The 70-year-old was sentenced to 25 years in prison.

Fujimori, who proclaimed his innocence throughout his 15-month trial, insisted he would appeal the verdict. He had argued his government quashed a two-decade insurgency by brutal leftist rebels, but denied ordering "dirty war" tactics.

Separately Alberto Fujimori returns to the dock on May 11 charged with funnelling 15 million dollars to his top advisor Vladimiro Montesinos, who is already in prison on multiple corruption charges.