Milosevic said on Friday given wrong drugs-lawyer

THE HAGUE, Mar 12 (Reuters) Slobodan Milosevic sent a letter to Russia on Friday stating he had been given the wrong drugs, his lawyer said today.

Lawyer Zdenko Tomanovic, who showed a copy of the hand-written letter to journalists at the U.N. tribunal, said the former Yugoslavia president had asked the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov for help, a day before he was found dead.

Tomanovic gave no further details.

Yesterrday, the lawyer said Milosevic believed there were attempts to poison him in prison and asked for the autopsy to take place in Russia. Russia was a close ally of the former Yugoslavia and Milosevic's wife and brother live in the country.

REITERS CH VC1858