Yes, it is:
If you get banned (temporarily or permanently) and create a new account to continue posting / sending PMs, it's considered ban evasion. The only exception is creating a thread in Meta about your ban.
Bounty managers don't give a shit about the forum or the rules it has. All they care about is their own salary they get for hiring nonsensical users for posting crap all around the forum or spamming social networks with the shares or posts of that particular company every single day. If they were to take care of every single thing like this, the forum would have been in a much a better situation today.