 Subsequently Mihăileanu published a number of articles in Peninsula Balcanică, in which he branded SMAC as a criminal organization extorting wealthy people (including Aromanians) for money and revealed details of its preparations for armed struggle in Macedonia.SMAC's chairman Boris Sarafov reacted by ordering his assassination.On 22 July 1900, Mihăileanu was assassinated by a Bulgarian SMAC komitadji Stoyan Dimitrov in Bucharest.