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Additionally, Akhbar has more than 35 years of investigative experience including more than 18 years of experience with the Anti-Corruption Agency (ACA), now known as the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Agency (MACC). During his service with the ACA, he held numerous senior management positions including as a State ACA Director and Director of Training at ACA before his optional retirement from the agency in 2001.

In the private sector, he has more than 17 years of experience including being appointed as a Director of Hill & Associates (Malaysia), a Hong Kong based Security Risk Management company for more than 2 years. Akhbar is also the Director of the Portcullis International Business Consulting (S) Pte Ltd. as well as Portcullis Risk Consulting Sdn Bhd since 2004 specializing in business solution services to improve client competitiveness through business risk analysis and management.

He also set up Akhbar & Associates Sdn Bhd, a company investigating corporate fraud, economic crime and risk management. The company also set up a Polygraph Science Academy to conduct and train professionals in polygraph examination.

In the academic fraternity, Akhbar Satar who is a criminologist and crime analyst is the Director and holds professorial chair at the Institute of Crime & Criminology and a Senior Research Fellow and Chief Integrity Officer of HELP University, Kuala Lumpur, a position he has held since 2006 He played a key role in establishing the Master of Science in Economic Crime Management program. He was also an Academic Advisor at the Faculty of Accountancy, University Technology MARA (UiTM) from 2014-2016. In 2018, Akhbar is the Adjunct Fellow, Asian Research Institute for Corruption, Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM).

He obtained an MA in Criminal Justice Studies from the University of Detroit, USA in 1990. Akhbar is also a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) and a Forensic Polygraph Examiner.

In addition, he was accepted as an Affiliate member of the Asian Institute of Chartered Bankers, a full member of the prestigious American Polygraph Association, member of the American Society of Criminology and member of the International Association of Crime Analysts.

In 2015, he was appointed by the government as a member of National Consultative Committee on Political Funding and in 2019 a committee member of Investigative Committee for Governance, Procurement and Governance Finance chaired by Tan Sri Ambrin Buang, the Malaysia’s former Auditor General.

In 2020, Akhbar was appointed by Yang Dipertuan Agong as the Anti-Corruption Advisory Board of MACC.

In 2021 he was appointed as Board member Institute of Integrity Malaysiw(IIM).

Akhbar is also a member of the Nomination Committee (Education & Community) of the Merdeka Award where DYMM Sultan Nazrin is the Royal Patron of the Merdeka Award Trust and the chairman of the Merdeka Award Board of Trustees.

As a speaker, he has spoken widely on fraud, corruption, ethics, integrity and detection of deception in seminars and conferences held both locally and internationally.