Trident Trust is a British Virgin Islands-headquartered financial services company whose records were leaked to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and published in 2021 as part of the Pandora Papers.[521] [729] The leak of records from Trident Trust exposed the Aliyeva sisters’ ties to numerous British Virgin Islands companies.[521]
Trident Trust told The Sentry that it is “subject to stringent client confidentiality and data protection obligations.” It added, “Each of Trident’s businesses is regulated in the jurisdiction in which it operates and is fully committed to compliance with all applicable regulations. Trident does not discuss with the media its clients, or whether any individual or entity is a client, but cooperates fully with any competent authority which requests information.”[1401]