Trust backing Quinn’s legal battles has 33 funders

A receiver appointed over the assets of the Quinn family has secured a court order unmasking the donors behind a mysterious trust which has shelled out €1.6 million bankrolling the family’s legal bills.

The 33 corporate and individual backers behind the discretionary Erin Group trust were shy about having their identities revealed, barrister Mark Orr for the trustees told the Chancery Court in Belfast last week, because of the extreme and sometimes hostile ...