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They have regions outside of Germany too. And IIRC, the people being wire tapped were doing some illegal stuff.

Also it was a court order. All legit providers have to comply with pen register / trap and trace warrants.

Exactly, they were communicating in the russian language.

I mean, I have no idea what they were doing but they literally said (in a deleted HN comment) that what they were doing was illegal.