In all honesty, I feel like this has been handled fairly well. It sucks that Aurvandil was suspected of cheating for so long and only now got caught, but a delicate hand takes time.
We investigated before and found nothing. It is well possible that things were legit until we basically said "all good" and then he felt like he had a free pass and started cheating. It is possible that some of the accounts actually used to be played by other people, and since they were OOC friends, they gave their accounts to him when they left and he continued playing them - we know this has happened in other multi-cheater cases.
We do not know what exactly went on when exactly. So to all who are saying they had suspected this before - yes we know and we checked it out back then. We found nothing then, we found something this time. Maybe we looked better this time, or maybe there actually was nothing to be found the first time. Keep that possibility in mind, please, before you accuse an entire realm of cheating.
