You’d think that getting the names of the shareholders of a company would be fairly easy. Such information should be routinely available. Not if you’re talking about private companies, which have managed to elude public scrutiny even in an era of increasing transparency. 
The ICIJ’s Sheila Coronel shares how to investigate illicit money trails ahead of her Tracking Corruption Internationally presentation at the 2012 IRE conference. 
Investigative journalists Sarah Shipley Hiles and Marina Walker Guevara wrote one of the earliest exposés of mining giant Renco Group’s deceptive practices in the town of La Oroya, Peru, in 2005. Subscribe to our email newsletter and be the first to view our ground-breaking investigations and multimedia.
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