There might be a difference now that charges were unsealed against them. It's unlikely (certainly for small fish), but given that the indictment alleges that the exchange itself is a criminal money laundering operation, the federal authorities can argue that the money you are withdrawing constitutes criminal proceeds. I'm sure they could seize it with civil forfeiture, if they can ever get their hands on it. I doubt they'd charge regular customers with conspiracy to launder money, but I also wouldn't want to be caught with the proceeds and my passport linked to the transactions via the exchange's database.

That's the thing here.... it's one thing to relaunch an altcoin exchange safely outside of the US sphere of influence. But that doesn't require documents. There is some speculation on the Russian forum about what exactly "verification" means. Some think it means tiered verification like other altcoin exchanges (e.g. name, address, phone number to enable withdrawals or something).