'Milosevic took wrong medicine to secure way out of UN court'

"I am sure he took the medicine himself because he wanted a one-way ticket to Moscow (for treatment)," Dutch toxicologist Donald Uges told AFP, a day after an official autopsy concluded Milosevic died of a heart attack.

"That is why he took rifampicine," a powerful antibiotic used to treat leprosy or tuberculosis that countered the effects of Milosevic's heart medication, said Uges.

Uges, a toxicologist for the University of Groningen here, said he examined Milosevic's blood two weeks ago at the request of the Dutch doctors who wanted to know why his blood pressure was not dropping despite medication.

Sunday's autopsy pinpointed "myocardial infarction" -- heart attack -- as the immediate cause of death, although a tribunal spokeswoman admitted it was too early to rule out poisoning as claimed by his entourage and the ex-president himself in a letter revealed after his death.