Milosevic back in prison after hospital stay

Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic was returned to prison today after two days in a military hospital for coronary …

Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic was returned to prison today after two days in a military hospital for coronary tests, witnesses said.

A luxury BMW car with blackened windows escorted by a police van and three white security jeeps was seen pulling into Belgrade's Central Prison just after 5 p.m. (3 p.m. Irish time).

Mr Milosevic, 59, had been taken in the same BMW to the Military Medical Academy on Wednesday evening after a team of doctors who examined him in his cell suggested he undergo tests for high blood pressure.

Mr Boris Tadic, Yugoslav Telecommunication Minister and a leader of the governing democratic reform coalition that ousted Mr Milosevic last October, told reporters Mr Milosevic had complained of sporadic chest pain.

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Mr Milosevic was arrested on April 1 for alleged corruption and abuses of power. He is also wanted by the UN war crimes tribunal in The Hague for atrocities blamed on his security forces in Kosovo.