| Mohammad Akbar Hossain | |||||||||||||
| Birth Date: | 9 August 1965 | ||||||||||||
| Birth Place: | Raozan, East Pakistan, Pakistan | ||||||||||||
| Serviceyears: | 1985 - 2023 | ||||||||||||
| Rank: | Lieutenant General | ||||||||||||
| Unit: | Regiment of Artillery | ||||||||||||
| Commands: |
| ||||||||||||
| Awards: | Senabahini Padak (SBP) Bishishto Seba Padak (BSP) Sena Utkorsho Padak(SUP) | ||||||||||||
| Module: |
| ||||||||||||
Mohammad Akbar Hossain is a retired lieutenant general in the Bangladesh Army and former commandant of National Defence College.[1]
Hossain is the former general officer commanding of 9th Infantry Division and commander of Savar area.[2] He previously served as Director General of Directorate General of Forces Intelligence.[3] He also served as Director of Counter Intelligence Bureau of Directorate General of Forces Intelligence. He previously Commanded a Artillery Brigade and a Air Defence Artillery Brigade. He was an artillery officer who was commissioned in the 13th BMA long course on 20 December 1985 from Bangladesh Military Academy.[4] Under him a new monogram of DGFI was designed.[5] [6]
On October 2005, Akbar was posted to 2nd Rapid Action Battalion as commanding officer. On February 2007 the battalion surveillance team had spotted a Hummer in Panthapath and asked the owners to come to their camp where they were detained.[7] Assistant director Monayem Hossain of the Anti-Corruption Commission filed a case against Harunur Rashid for tax fraud in March 2007 with Tejgaon police station and then pressed charge in July.[8] [9] Harunur Rashid had imported a Hummer H2 on 25 April 2005 without paying tax as per his privilege as a member of parliament but later sold the to Ishtiak Sadek, violating the rules of the duty free facility, who sold it to Enayetur Rahman Bappi.[10] [11] [12] A vehicle imported duty free using such a privilege may not be resold within three years of its importation.
Hossain became the 1st Colonel Commandant of the Remount Veterinary and Farm Corps in December 2020.[13]