IMO: If the "company" that delivered up the shares to the transfer agent was the same as the S.Bros Canada I'd have a major problem with that too. Issue is, they are not. NEVER a LEGAL, REGISTERED relationship between the two.
Funds for the defense for anyone will come from the proceeds from the sale of the airshares. S.Bros, the brick and mortar in Canada, has nothing to do with this.............except for the fact that the individuals that pulled this crap off happen to be involved with a company by the (kinda) same name, and used that as one of the major link pins to the scam-o-rino.
S.Bros, Canada, (with Dave and all those folks up there), remains clean and clear. No threat to the assets there. But that doesn't matter either way. As far as I can tell, we've never owned it. IMO