If the coins gets seized I will look into possibilities to claim my funds from the US mafia. We will have to see what kind of documents they require to release funds or if they will even release funds at all. I prefer if US do not seize the funds as I don't trust them. The best outcome would be if admin on the loose relaunch btc-e on a new domain and allow users to withdraw. I'm hoping for that outcome.
Unfortunately, they seem to be treating this like Libertyreserve... and I don't think there were any funds released in that case. The way the feds framed this was really messed up... "the entire customer base are criminals and the exchange itself is a money laundering operation" is basically what they've claimed. That doesn't sound like customers have much chance at claiming their funds.
It would be nice if they would relaunch on a new domain, but it would basically be just to let users withdraw. And crypto only -- I can't imagine they will have channels to wire out USD or EUR at this point (nor would you necessarily want that money hitting your bank account).
I have to think it puts the admins at great risk, just to refund people. Noble, but likely? Probably not.
The only bright spot is that they are Russians, so they might just have the balls to do it....