Jason Arday.
A Belgian university on Thursday suspended a US academic who spearheaded accusations of plagiarism against Jason Arday, the black ex-Cambridge professor found dead last week after resigning over the scandal.
Researcher Nathan Cofnas posted on X: "I was just suspended by Ghent University. They will almost certainly fire me."
Without naming Cofnas, the University of Ghent said in a statement it had launched a "preliminary disciplinary investigation" against a postdoctoral researcher embroiled in the furore, suspending him "as a precautionary measure".
AFP previously reported that the allegations against Arday, 41, had received widespread media coverage from the UK press Cofnas, who was sacked from his Cambridge role in 2024, said in July he found numerous instances of plagiarism in the professor's work.
