I got caught up it this around 10 years back. Got my money back, but it took over a year to get it.

Needless to say, since then I've paid attention to how deposits are guaranteed for any accounts I open.

I've always found it rather fitting that two previous European colonizers had a previous colony (though not one of theirs) do a bit of modern day financial pillaging on their shores.

In the end though, they did get paid back all that they were owed. So all ended well.

I wonder if the same can be said about any of their former colonies though...