I'm not sure what that "manual recovery previously queued ownership change completed" means from BPIP, nor do I know how much weight it has as evidence that the account changed hands.

So he's currently posting in German and used to post in the Philippines section, right?  I have those sections on ignore and thus couldn't see his posts when I checked his history.  I'll un-ignore them and go back and take a close look at his posting history.

If any other members (particularly DT) care to weigh in, I'd like to hear some opinions.