Ion Cristoiu

He was editor-in-chief of the daily Evenimentul Zilei during its heyday in the 1990s, when the average daily circulation topped 600,000, making it the most read newspaper in Romania, after România liberă (circulation 1 million)[2] and one of the most read in Eastern Europe as well.

Cristoiu is considered by some as a controversial figure in the Romanian public due to his alleged involvement as informant of the Securitate (Communist Romania's secret police).

Romanian Senator Corneliu Vadim Tudor in 2008 alleged publicly that Cristoiu "was more than the caster, he was a source".

Mădălin Hodor [ro], a Romanian historian and researcher, gave an interview to the Newsweek Romania magazine in 2018, in which he spoke about the fact that the journalist is mentioned in documents from the archives of the former Securitate, as the "Coroiu" source.

According to The National Council for the Study of the Securitate Archives, Ion Cristoiu appears in the database both in the index of collaborators, in the Foreign Intelligence Service (SIE) file 41448, and in the Index of follow-ups, twice, as a writer, with a conspiratorial name TO "Coroiu", 1987, and as deputy editor-in-chief of Scânteia Tineretului, for the attention of SMB (Bucharest City Securitate), 1983, 1984[5] This is a list that can be updated, and Cristoiu is not on that list now.