Major general Major general (abbreviated MG, maj. gen. and similar) is a military rank used in many countries. It is derived from the older rank of sergeant major general. The disappearance of the "sergeant" in the title explains the apparent confusion of a ...

Mohamed Ahmed Fareed Al-Tuhami ( ar, محمد فريد التهامي; born 1947) is a former Director of the

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(EGID). Fareed graduated from the

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in 1967. He attended various training courses including the General Command and Staff Course. During his military career he served in leadership positions in the infantry and mechanical infantry, then became commander of a tactical formation, and was appointed as General Director of the military intelligence and reconnaissance department (DIM) of Ministry of Defence (MoD). He has been described as a mentor to General

Abdel Fattah el-Sisi Abdel Fattah Saeed Hussein Khalil el-Sisi; (born 19 November 1954) is an Egyptian politician and retired military officer who has served as the sixth and current president of Egypt since 2014. Before retiring as a general in the Egyptian mil ...

, the current

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. In 2004, President Mubarak appointed him as the Head of the Administrative Control Authority (ACA), a governmental agency set up in 1964 which specialized in combating

corruption Corruption is a form of dishonesty or a criminal offense which is undertaken by a person or an organization which is entrusted in a position of authority, in order to acquire illicit benefits or abuse power for one's personal gain. Corruption m ...

. In September 2012, President

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. After the

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, acting president

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announced on July 4, 2013, that Fareed would be appointed as the new Director of the General Intelligence, reportedly "one of the most powerful positions in Egypt", replacing

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. Critic Hossam Bahgat has complained that the claimed corruption charges against Fareed disappeared following the coup. According to journalist

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, critics describe him as an influential opponent of any reconciliation with the

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or Islamists, and claim that his return as signaling a "restoration" of the old pre-revolutionary order in Egypt.

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in Arabic Directors of the General Intelligence Directorate (Egypt) 1947 births Living people Egyptian military officers Egyptian Military Academy alumni Directors of the Military Intelligence and Reconnaissance (Egypt) {{egypt-bio-stub