This is exactly happened with me about 3 years ago and few days ago with a friend of mine. Same reason of association. His account had about 200+ apps with downloads varying upto 500k downloads. It was his 4–5 years hard work all gone in a moment.

He’s trying to get reinstated but no luck. As editor of AndroidPub, I published that article you mentioned and it became popular on Medium and his case got solved. I suggested my friend to post an article and hope this gets resolved. But now I am reading your article. I seriously hope Google contacts you and you get your account back.

But seeing all these and Google’s lack of support for the one of most revenue making platform, on which we developers spend years to make apps for their shitty platform Google play and this is how they treat us. My friend is already thinking of stopping android development once and for all and move entirely to iOS developement.