[1] After two failed attempts to become a lawyer, Tolontan's first journalistic endeavour was when he wrote articles about football that were pasted on walls next to lifts where he worked at the Computer Science Research Institute.

[1][4] In 2009, Gazeta Sporturilor published its investigation into Monica Iacob Ridzi, a Democratic Liberal Party politician and head of the Ministry of Youth and Sport, accusing her of embezzlement.

[1] In 2015, Gazeta Sporturilor published its investigation into Elena Udrea, the then-Minister for Regional Development and Tourism, alleging that she had received bribes to fund a boxing event honouring Lucian Bute.

This, along with additional corruption concerns levied against Udrea, led to her receiving a six-year prison sentence in 2018, though she subsequently fled to Costa Rica seeking asylum.

[1] He led a five-month investigation which found that the disinfective supplied to state hospitals by Hexi Pharma was not effective due to it being secretly diluted, with falsified records obscuring this information.