MIAMI, Nov 12, 2009 (AFP) - Peru's ex-foreign minister August Blacker Miller, on the run since 2005, was arrested in Miami for allegedly breaking immigration laws, a US official said as Lima announced it will request his extradition to stand trial.

"Blacker-Miller was arrested on Monday... by ICE special agents for being in violation of US immigration law," said an Immigration and Customs Enforcement official who requested anonymity.

He said the Peruvian faces deportation proceedings.

Peru's Interior Minister Octavio Salazar on Wednesday announced the arrest and said Lima would at once lodge an extradition request with US authorities.

Blacker-Miller was foreign minister under president Alberto Fujimori (1990-2000) and is held partly accountable for Fujimori's so-called "autogolpe," or self-styled coup in 1992, when with military backing he dissolved Congress, sacked several top judges and jailed leading opponents.

The former top diplomat was declared in contempt of court in October 2005 for failing to appear at a trial of former Fujimori cabinet members involved in the 1992 power move. --AFP