Hypothesis: If swiss law is broken and Europol comes knocking on ProtonVPN's door it is much more convenient this way.

"Aggregate statistics of legal orders that we [Proton] have received can be found below:

2023
Number of legal orders: 6,378
Contested orders: 407
Orders complied with: 5,971
2022
Number of legal orders: 6,995
Contested orders: 1,038
Orders complied with: 5,957
2021
Number of legal orders: 6,243
Contested orders: 1,323
Orders complied with: 4,920
2020
Number of legal orders: 3,767
Contested orders: 750
Orders complied with: 3,017
2019
Number of legal orders: 1,594
Contested orders: 110
Orders complied with: 1,484
2018
Number of legal orders: 340
Contested orders: 4
Orders complied with: 336
2017
Number of legal orders: 26
Contested orders: 3
Orders complied with: 23"