Consumers might have had their eye off the ball at the time, but once they realised they had aclaimforcompensation, many were fully aware of their rights.
Under instruction from the financial authorities, the industry is now going back through past sales and alerting customers to the possibility that they can now make aclaimforcompensation - a process which is generating a huge bill for the UK's banks.
"Chelsea Football Club is obviously pleased that the Appeals Committee has vindicated the club's position and opened the door foracompensationclaim and sporting sanctions before FIFA's Dispute Resolution Chamber, " the league leaders said in a statement.
Investors might well have pushed for an even bigger compensationclaim, a move that wouldn't have done the firm's already sullied political image any favors.
Villagran and Bianco have also been unable to provide CNN with any written contract that sets forth a relationship with Yacob in relation to the transfer to support their claimforcompensation.
Last week it emerged PC Jones had filed acompensationclaim against Nuns' Bridges garage owner Steve Jones for failing to ensure she was "reasonably safe" while attending a suspected break-in on 25 August last year.
Claimants forcompensation will have to prove before a judge that they really owned the land they claim, and that it was unjustly seized (a flexible concept: a judge might accept that the late dictator Anastasio Somoza had indeed awarded himself legal title to some land he had got hold of, but that its confiscation after he was overthrown in 1979 was fair enough).