Read the article first. They exclusively tailored to criminals on cybercrime forums. If they were shutting down all VPNs which were used by criminals then they would have gone after all.

While performing incident response engagements I’ve seen a lot of criminals using Proton and others, due to them not being purposely designed for criminals they get away with it.

It’s just like when they shut down RedVDS in January.

His current job is also as a spoke person for Chinese electric vehicles. So take that with a grain of salt.