If everything is as you have written @magge then I retract everything I said and find this completely reasonable.
I think "most" people here know which account we are currently talking about. According to what I've been told his smurf / alt account / whatever you want to call it was playing "a few months ago", not years (and then deleted and now he / she is here with a new one - allowed by faf because of "something he did for faf"). That being said, this is second hand information and might be completely false, as I do not have the option to verify this.
The main problem here for me is not doubting if anybody on the moderation team is lying, it is the reasoning that is being questioned here. Although questioning this, from my perspective, is not easy because, as i said, i only have second hand information.