As there were with MaidSafeCoin, anything can be twisted if the motivation is right. Remember we are dealing with regulators that take a dim view of decentralised privacy (witness the crusade against privacy coins atm).
We can ignore the risk, or take positive steps to decentralised the project more and a part of that means MaidSafeCoin which we will be stuck with for the foreseeable future. Just hiding and hoping we will not be next because of three highly subjective indicators is not good risk management.