And that's why people shouldn't be throwing around the phrase "decentralised" as they please. The fact that the exchange had a founder, who ran, managed, and operated it, should immediately have made the use of DEX terminology erroneous. The only good thing I suppose was that funds were never centralised but imagine what else he shared with prosecutors (the story claims his fines were actually reduced because he cooperated)? IP addresses? Emails (I don't know if ED uses it)?

Course they had a case. And made it well.