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It doesn't say have been found guilty, it says is guilty. Someone who has committed a crime is guilty of it, whether or not it has been proven in court.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/guilty
"Innocent until proven guilty" is a legal principle. Like I tried to explain, there's different context where in a court you could say that they can't consider someone guilty (and a criminal for that particular thing) until proven so, but you can still be a criminal outside of specific legal language for being guilty, meaning having committed a crime.
Guilt also means different things, it can mean you have actually committed it (factual guilt seems to be the term for it) and legal guilt is the one proven and assigned in court.