It sounds like there's considerable evidence that the owners were fine with supporting illegal transactions. So, no one really contests their arrests.
The problem is that the service they created is/was used by many people to store and transfer legitimately earned money.
The end result is that many cybercriminals are no longer able to access the money they illicitly earned, yet many regular working people, often in foreign countries where they can't use Paypal or otherwise, can't access their actual funds. Those people had nothing to do with LR's management, nor the criminals who were using the service.
It sounds like there's considerable evidence that the owners were fine with supporting illegal transactions. So, no one really contests their arrests.
The problem is that the service they created is/was used by many people to store and transfer legitimately earned money.
The end result is that many cybercriminals are no longer able to access the money they illicitly earned, yet many regular working people, often in foreign countries where they can't use Paypal or otherwise, can't access their actual funds. Those people had nothing to do with LR's management, nor the criminals who were using the service.