Rezzakul Haider Chowdhury is a retired Bangladesh Army officer who is the former director of the

Directorate General of Forces Intelligence The Directorate General of Forces Intelligence (), commonly known by its acronym DGFI, is the defense intelligence agency of the Bangladesh Armed Forces, tasked with collection, collation and evaluation of strategic and topographic informatio ...

and

National Security Intelligence The National Security Intelligence, commonly known as the NSI, is the principal civilian intelligence agency of Bangladesh. The NSI is the leading body of the Government of Bangladesh in the fields of internal security, counter terrorism, coun ...

Career

Chowdhury maintained regular contact with

Tarique Rahman Tarique Rahman (born 20 November 1965), better known natively as Tarique Zia, is a Bangladeshi politician and businessman who has been the acting chairman of Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) since February 2018. He is the eldest son of fo ...

while at Directorate General of Forces Intelligence. He was the director general of Directorate General of Forces Intelligence from 2005 to 2006. He met with

Paresh Baruah Paresh Baruah, also known by the alias Paresh Asom is an Assamese separatist militant who is the army chief of the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA), which is seeking Independence for Assam from the India, Indian Union. He is the vice-ch ...

of the

United Liberation Front of Asom The United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) is an armed separatist insurgent organisation, that operates in the Indian state of Assam. It seeks to establish an independent sovereign nation state of Assam for the indigenous Assamese people throu ...

to discuss smuggling arms for Indian separatist outfit. He also served as the directors general of the National Security Intelligence from 20 April 2008 to 17 March 2009. Chowdhury was sentenced to death in 2014 for the

2004 arms and ammunition haul in Chittagong The incident of the 10-Truck Arms and Ammunition Haul took place in Chattogram, Bangladesh, on the night of 1 April 2004, when police and Coast Guard interrupted the loading of ten trucks and seized extensive illegal arms and ammunition at a jett ...

. The arms were destined for

ULFA The United Liberation Front of Assam (ULFA) is an armed separatist insurgent organisation, that operates in the Indian state of Assam. It seeks to establish an independent sovereign nation state of Assam for the indigenous Assamese people thro ...

rebels in India. He held meetings with officials of ARY Group and the Pakistan intelligence agency ISI regarding the smuggling of arms. However, on 18 December 2024, he was acquitted by high court in this case. Chowdhury was sentenced to death in the

2004 Dhaka grenade attack The 2004 Dhaka grenade attack took place at an anti-terrorism rally organised by Awami League in Bangabandhu Avenue (now Shaheed Abrar Fahad Avenue) on 21 August 2004. The attack left 24 dead and more than 500 injured. The attack was carried ou ...

which was an attempted assassination of

Sheikh Hasina Sheikh Hasina (''née'' Wazed; born 28 September 1947) is a Bangladeshi politician who served as the tenth prime minister of Bangladesh from June 1996 to July 2001 and again from January 2009 to August 2024. Premiership of Sheikh Hasina, Her ...

, former

Prime Minister of Bangladesh The prime minister of Bangladesh (, : Bāṅlādēśēr Prôdhānmôntrī), officially prime minister of the People's Republic of Bangladesh (, : Gôṇôprôjātôntrī Bāṅlādēśēr Prôdhānmôntrī), is the head of government of the Ba ...

and leader of

Awami League The Awami League, officially known as Bangladesh Awami League, is a major List of political parties in Bangladesh, political party in Bangladesh. The oldest existing political party in the country, the party played the leading role in achievin ...

. On 1 December 2024, he was acquitted by high court in August 21 grenade attack cases.

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Living people Directors General of the Directorate General of Forces Intelligence Year of birth missing (living people) Directors general of National Security Intelligence Bangladesh Army generals 20th-century Bangladeshi military personnel 21st-century Bangladeshi military personnel {{Bangladesh-bio-stub

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