Really you havent gear duped at all or touched anyone elses AFK strat accounts? So if a high ranking admin checked the IP logs you and all your guys would be fine?
I might be wrong, but I reckoned that you hadn't gone through the list of battles under their faction, so I did that!
The only fief in which they could have possibly intentionally gear-duped is New Chaeza. I take that back, there was the possibility of intentional gear duping going on in what seems to be the fief transfer of qalyut to you fellows. Don't reckon you guys did anything there, huh? :^)
I'm not sure who Chaeza was transferred to, and who it was transferred from. It is very common practice amongst strat veterans to keep non top-tier villages (in terms of defensibility) completely ungeared, so it is very unlikely they accidentally gear-bugged and didn't tell anyone about it.
The only way that they've profited from the current bugged fief defense is if they intentionally stacked tons of shit in Chaeza to knowingly dupe, or by sheer happenstance some jackass went and dropped off 1k army's gear in there for no reason.
Out of anyone, my suspicions would be LEAST on Taser. I don't know Kale all that well, so I couldn't objectively say one way or another what he'd do if if I'd trust him.
However, I'll go ahead and tell you that Taser ain't done shit wrong.
Edit: I don't know why the fuck Kartoffeln is back, but he was hooked up with the very end of the GOBBLIN REALM in our faction, playing a bit on NA1 at the time. When that imploded, I was too late/lazy to touch his butt hard enough to get him to join my faction, so he ended up with the taters. I've seen Drehar a few times on NA1 but I don't talk to the dude.
You know, there are certain folks that have factually benefited from this gear-bug, although one of these folks is very good at plausible deniability. Probably his legal work. :^)