In 2008, while Tadić was the President of Serbia, another negative media campaign against Subotić was organized, again focusing on cigarette-smuggling operations which had allegedly been coordinated by Jovica Stanišić and Mihalj Kertes. In 2009, after a full year of relentless pressure led by the government administration, his company Futura plus went bankrupt. Subotić claimed the attacks were orchestrated by tycoons Miroslav Mišković and Milan Beko who owed him more than 30 million euros from past business deals. Subotić's claims were later confirmed by the Anti-Corruption Council. The politically motivated attacks and impeded business operations drove WAZ to discontinue its operations in Serbia and sell all of their shares in Politika and Dnevnik.
