Crvena Zvezda finished top of the table in regular season, although the club didn't play its last round match against Maccabi, since the Israeli club didn't travel to Belgrade due to the state of emergency proclaimed following the March 2003 assassination of Serbian prime minister Zoran Đinđić.
He was the Serbian Minister of finance in the first post-Milošević government of Zoran Đinđić in 2001-2003, and vice-president of the government from May 2007 to December 2011, from the list of Democratic Party.
On his return to Serbia, he was appointed by Zoran Đinđić as the Deputy Minister of Energy and Mining in the Government of Serbia (2001-2004) due to his expertise.
He served under two Prime Ministers, Zoran Đinđić and Zoran Živković, from 2001 until 2003, before resigning under public pressure when his chauffer-driven government-issued vehicle struck and killed a pedestrian on the sidewalk in Belgrade.
His meetings with Western leaders George W. Bush, Tony Blair, Jacques Chirac and others strongly indicated that the West supported his politics.
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Political opponents directly accused him of criminal involvement and of providing favours for shady individuals such as Dušan Spasojević (late leader of the Zemun mafia clan) and Milorad Ulemek (now convicted as the person who organized the assassination of Zoran Đinđić).
Zvezdan Jovanović (born 1965), the assassin of former Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Đinđić in 2003