Aside from those who cheat in other ways, who are known to be duplicate active accounts for the same human but not known to use computers or MiM?
It was reported long ago that Horst Dog (the recent winner of the chess championship) is the same person as iwan. Can someone say how this is known? Assuming it's true, this person is taking up two spots in the championship structure, where one spot should be available to another player.
I have no idea if the players you mention are the same person, but I want to point out that the problem is bigger than simply taking out spots in the championship. Two or more aliases of the same player can easily manipulate the final result of a championship or a tournament. This is, by the way, what the resident cheater used to do: the games between his aliases were always the last to finish so he would know which alias needed to get the points needed to win the championship or the tournament.