Aaaah!
http://hasthelargehadroncolliderdestroyedtheworldyet.com/
Nope.
*Phew*

Even if they aren't lying, the question is "did they use AES 256 correctly?"

There are a number of ways, some of them non-obvious, to produce a system that does, in fact, use AES 256 in some capacity; but doesn't actually achieve reasonably security against anybody who wouldn't also be stopped by XOR and a scary looking autorun program(particularly since, as this is a small USB drive, the attacker can probably make some plausible assumptions about some of the plaintext, based on what is known about what fat32 volumes look like).

it's because they want to be able to sell data recovery services.

That and it's a genuine concern in business- apparently when they ask "what if I forget my password" the answer "then you try to remember it or your data is gone" isn't acceptable.

ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED

From TFA:"Others indicted are from the US, Estonia, China, and Belarus". Yeah, good luck with that. I'm sure those countries will have no problem handing people over.