Nathan Cofnas, the U.S. academic who raised plagiarism concerns about the late Cambridge professor Jason Arday, says Belgium’s Ghent University has suspended him and is investigating him for discrimination.

Mr Cofnas disclosed his suspension on X on Thursday, adding that Ghent University has also launched an investigation to determine if he discriminated against Mr Arday when he was alive.

“I was just suspended by Ghent University,” Mr Cofnas wrote in the post. “They will almost certainly fire me.”

Mr Cofnas’s relentless plagiarism accusations against the youngest Black professor triggered a worldwide controversy and scrutiny of Mr Arday’s scholarly works.

Mr Arday was found dead in his UK residence days after he resigned his position at Cambridge University, explaining that the backlash from the allegations was too much to bear.

Mr Cofnas had said he examined Mr Arday’s works with plagiarism software and discovered multiple plagiarised citations, stating that “many passages are lifted with minimal editing, sometimes retaining copy-editing mistakes from the original source”. Mr Arday denied the allegations.

Cambridge sacked Mr Cofnas from Emmanuel College over backlash from his views that Blacks would “disappear from almost all high-profile positions outside of sports and entertainment” under true meritocracy.