A deleted testnet account gets fully restored

This is expected behavior - when you delete an account it does not delete all the things this account owns or controls. That needs to be done manually before account is deleted.

Account deletion just deletes the information about this specific account state on-chain.

When you recreate the account - it will actually be back to controlling whatever was linking to it by account id.

Generally, if you delete account - that name and things it owns are up for grubs for anyone else, so account deletion should be done very careful.

Filed two issues to improve experience here:

• https://github.com/near/nearcore/issues/5816
• https://github.com/near/near-cli/issues/900

The account had been deleted and the remaining funds were burnt since the beneficiary account did not exist (the account got removed before the transfer was initiated). You can also confirm that the account had actually been removed by reviewing the next transactions (deletion of other accounts with beneficiary account id set to quantransedev.testnet) did not succeed to transfer the remaining tokens from the removed accounts (the tokens got burnt).

You had had to re-create the account explicitly from scratch: https://explorer.testnet.near.org/transactions/CroKF7ipwM3fDgH5ogVrnWS6JSmnhvjkaJNDqiWzjsm2 to gain control over the account id. Before that moment, the account did not exist on the chain. Explorer, however, keeps track of all the ever-existing accounts on the network, which might have confused you.