extreme_one This dosent suprise me by barclays at all, 10 years ago my parents banked with them, while in Australia they decided to buy a holiday villa on complex with lovely amenities, they contacted Skipton building society who they had a high interest account with asked them to transfer money for house, legal fees, furniture and tax it came too 266 thousand in total Skipton transfered it to there Barclays account no problem, so they started the process of buying, contacted Barclays asking them to release the money to there solicitors in Australia for Barclays to refuse, this went on for 4 days they nearly lost the house over it, my dad finally had enough and contacted the Fcaa who were very helpful and contacted Barclays and basically told them what they were doing was illegal and if they didn't release the money like asked then they would take legal action against them, they also made Barclays pay an additional 20 thousand to my parents in compensation for stress and the fact they'd had to move out of the villa they'd being renting when buying it to a hotel as they wouldn't release the money do it cost them more money, Within 24 hours the Money and compensation had being paid, they returned to the UK 3 months later and closed down there Barclays accounts they had one being a savings ac other 2 current accounts, plus had isas and stock snd bonds with thrm all were cashed in and moved including the safety deposit box which held my mother's mother's jewellery which is worth quite a bit, they moved it all to Halifax, so Barclays lost quite a lot of business from them, so this dosent suprise me in the least.
