no, my second point was only industry gossip - i don’t personally know anyone who has had problems withdrawing from them, but then i don’t know anyone who would touch them with a barge-pole in the first place; but if you just look around online, yourself, you’ll see many similar reports, though, and you can decide for yourself whether they’re all “just made up”
not just according to me: according to anyone involved in the trading world who’s making a living: any FCA-regulated or ASIC-regulated broker is a “green flag”, by comparison, in this context, and there are hundreds to choose from, so there’s really no great problem and absolutely no need for anyone to resort to a “broker” of this kind anyway - good luck