Then on September 10, 1978, the day of the album release, while entering his apartment building in Sarajevo, coming back from a walk with his girlfriend, twenty-two-year-old Ivandić was arrested by a plain clothes policeman who said he is taking him in for questioning. Ivandić had been set to leave for Belgrade in a matter of hours where Laza was waiting so they can do promotional activities for the album. Instead, Ivandić got charged with a series of drug offenses along with other individuals. He thus began a long court battle and most of his musical activities got pushed to the back burner. He even sold his drum kit and went back to his university studies, passing a few exams at the University of Sarajevo's Faculty of Political Sciences where he had been enrolled in the journalism program. While awaiting sentencing, he was under a Yugoslavia-wide shadow ban on public performance that including ban on being credited publicly. Bijelo Dugme also publicly distanced themselves from Ivandić, recording their next two studio albums—1979's "Bitanga i princeza" and 1980's "Doživjeti stotu"—with Điđi Jankelić on drums. Since the SR Serbia constituent unit mostly didn't enforce his country-wide ban, Ivandić began frequently performing there as a gig drummer in order to help his finances. He also played on the twenty-two-year-old Slađana Milošević's 1979 debut album "Gorim od želje da ubijem noć" recorded in PGP-RTB's studios in Belgrade and furthermore appeared in the title track video. Showing Ivandić in several frames of the video at this time was considered controversial and reportedly required young Milošević to personally intervene with the television executives.