Sidenote: The "collaboration" offers come from time to time even to non-extensions projects, if they are reasonably widely used. E.g. simple tools (rather widely used suite of android apps recently sold).
This is fantastic. Too bad they redacted the names. These scumbags deserve to be known. And the saddest part of the story is you don't know if is true or a cover-up. On the other hand it appears to be MIT. Are Google Chrome extensions reproducible?
Yup, and he won't care about the criminal investigation because from other side of iron curtain v2. But if you're from the side where the nation isn't the cover for criminal enterprise you could get in trouble.