NSA tapped the phones of the German Prime Minister.

They are the same spooks that intercept router gear in transit, flashed it with secret firmware, then put it back in the mail. Like, of course the United Stated Intelligence apparatus, agencies with an unlimited budget, a national security mission, and is completely exempt from all laws has 100% capability to spy on some tiny company in Sweden.

Yes, let me just get my tin foil roll, stand up in front of the mirror,…

I agree there's a very high chance they and the majority of other VPNs are - or if not the US some other intel org.

The US government has form (what was that early crypto machine they sold to allies and it was backdoored?), and they'd be foolish to miss such a strategically obvious play.