In 1929, after the January 6 Dictatorship was proclaimed in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, the State Court for the Protection of the State in Belgrade sentenced him to five years in prison, which he served in the Sremska Mitrovica prison.
In 1929, after the regime change in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia on January 6, the State Court for National Security in Belgrade sentenced him to serve five years behind bars, where he was imprisoned in the Sremska Mitrovica facility.