I wouldn't be surprised if this were true. Ratimov burned all bridges behind him, and instead of confronting problems, he just kept digging a deeper hole. Maybe it's an ego thing, I don't get it.
If this is true, it leaves only one question: why would anyone buy such a high-profile account? Maybe that's the reason he stopped posting in English too, but if the account changed owner, that can't go unnoticed.
Imagine someone else using my account: how long would it last before it's exposed? I hope it doesn't even take a day!
If it is sold it wouldn’t exactly make sense for the buyer to be in your words “digging his own grave”. Although not everyone who buys stuff in general is gonna be smart and some people will be retarded. I assume these Legendary accounts go for expensive amounts if they were to ever be sold especially for someone like him. It is stupid that he is basically destroying his reputation and everything but if I were to buy an account I wouldn’t be absolutely stupid and burn bridges and ruin the accounts reputation by what people think of the user.
Couldn’t there be like IP checks that can just quickly resolve these type of scenarios?