1997, Subotić relocated his entire business to Montenegro, where he was close to the Prime Minister Milo Đukanović and the ruling DPS party president Svetozar Marović. In July 1997, Milošević's regime shut down his duty-free shops and his company MIA. The government also attempted to illegally seize his private properties, which prompted Subotić to leave Serbia. He and his family settled in Geneva and became permanent residents in 1999. Subotić continued to develop his business and in 2002, he founded EMI Group (Emerging Marketing Investments APS), a holding company with a head office in Copenhagen, Denmark. The company was focused on connecting successful distribution companies, other trade companies, and real estate companies across Europe. Later that year, EMI invested into a meat processing plant in Serbia. In 2003, EMI bought Duvanpromet, a company in Kragujevac which owned a large distribution network in Serbia, including many newspaper stands. Later that year, Subotić established another company called Futura plus. In 2004, Subotić began collaborating with the German media holding group Wastdeutsche Allgemaine Zeitung (WAZ), the majority shareholder of Politika. This enabled Futura plus to embark on a significant expansion which resulted in this company becoming the largest distribution network in Serbia. In addition to his investments in Serbia, Subotić became the sole owner of the French company Louis Max in 2007. Subotić also has large investments in Montenegro. He owns a part of the Sveti Nikola Island near Budva, and a luxury hotel on the Sveti Stefan peninsula. Media attacks In May 2001, Croatia's Nacional Weekly published detailed accounts of Subotić's activities, claiming that in the late 1990s, he, Zoran Đinđić, and Milo Đukanović were allegedly involved in a cigarette-smuggling operation. Subotić rejected accusations and claimed they were complete fabrications orchestrated by a competing tobacco producer from Croatia, Tvornica duhana Rovinj which, supposedly, felt threatened by Subotić's plans to expand his business into Croatia. Reporters from Nacional Weekly later acknowledged that the media attack on him, in fact, came from Serbia, at the order of Boris Tadić. 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