Exactly. If this wasn't persecuted the message would be "yeah, screw people over and ruin the swiss reputation, we don't really care". Now even if the evidence isn't court-proof, or it's not possible to attach it to specific people, it still shows that things like this won't be ignored.

If I was responsible for selling rigged encryption equipment, I'd be wary that this might backfire on me - even in a decade or two.