How can receiving merits be against the rules ? This can be used to ban accounts of innocent users as well.
Normally I wouldn't tag somebody like this, because I'd be suspicious that the purpose was to just dump the merit out of spite--not necessarily to give it to a specific person. However the receiving account used it to rank up, and that's good evidence that it was sent intentionally. That account might be an alt, but the merit might even have been sold, who knows.
If you look at the times that merit was received - that is not normal. Especially when some of that merit came from a hacked account.
Agreed. It's another good piece of evidence.