Mo. Rev. Stat. § 375.183

The director shall not approve any declaration of organization or articles of incorporation or issue a certificate of authority to any company until he has found that there is no good reason to believe that the incorporators, directors and proposed officers are affiliated, directly or indirectly, through ownership, control, management, reinsurance transactions or other insurance or business relations with any person or persons known to have been involved in the improper manipulation of assets, accounts or reinsurance.