The Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) has started investigating the allegations of embezzlement and acquisition of illegal wealth against Khondoker Nasiruddin, the former vice-chancellor of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Science and Technology University in Gopalganj.
The anti-graft agency has tasked Director Sheikh Md Fanafillah to lead the investigation after a meeting on Wednesday, the ACC said.
Nasiruddin, facing allegations of corruption and abuse of power, resigned from his post as vice chancellor of the university on Sept 30 amid raging student protests on the campus.
Students alleged the VC charged students extra money for admissions, dormitory rent and medical treatment.
Protests gripped the university after Fatema Tuz Zinia, a second-year student of law and a reporter of a daily, was suspended over a Facebook post highlighting the allegations against Nasiruddin.
A video of a conversation between the VC and Fatema, in which he made derogatory comments against her father, went viral.
The authorities later withdrew the suspension but were forced to shut down the university after failing to appease the protesters.
But as the protests raged on, violence soon followed when 20 students were left injured in an attack perpetrated by alleged outsiders.
The University Grants Commission subsequently sent a probe committee to look into the matter and the panel on Sept 29 recommended Nasiruddin's removal from office.