Resource Video
Follow the Money: Investigating Shell Companies
This GIJN webinar dives into the world of shell companies, exploring how investigative journalists can unravel these complex networks.
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Past event
GIJN Webinar: Follow the Money — Investigating Shell Companies
October 10, 2024
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Investigative Techniques Reporting Tools & Tips
Tips for Linking Shell Companies to their Secret Owners
At a recent panel at the 2024 NICAR conference, Karrie Kehoe, deputy head of data and research at ICIJ, offered a series of tips for investigating the true owners of shell companies.
Organized Crime Reporting Tools & Tips
Investigating Arms Trafficking
National laws that govern arms dealing are uneven, contradictory, influenced by corrupted leadership, and rife with loopholes. Other barriers to exposing the weapons trade range from maritime and aviation secrecy concealing the transportation of arms; corporate entities that shield dealers and operators; the role of neighboring countries as conduits, and a barter system that allows one illicit commodity, such as ivory, to be exchanged for another.
News & Analysis
A 10-Step Program to Fight Kleptocracy Around the World
In this excerpt from his new book on protecting democracy, Larry Diamond, founding co-editor of the Journal of Democracy, outlines 10 steps to combat kleptocracy around the world. Among them is the need to end the use of anonymous shell companies and “increase international support for investigative journalism.”