I read some other articles and seems that safe-inet was one of three services taken down, all had been heavily promoting and advertising themselves on dark web

I read some other articles and seems that safe-inet was one of three services taken down, all had been heavily promoting and advertising themselves on dark web sites, where they promised bullet proof service for above market prices. So instead of a vpn service that happened to be used by criminals, they were a vpn service that marketed themselves to criminals. (In a literal sense, not a US style “they made us get a supena so they must be allied with the criminals” sense).