10 Things you should know about Issad Rebrab

Issad Rebrab is widely known as Cevital industrial group, the largest private company in Algeria. Here are 10 Things you should know about Issad Rebrab.

1. Issad Rebrab was born in 1944.
2. He is an Algerian billionaire businessman
3. In 2020, he was sentenced to six months for tax, banking and customs offenses.
4. As of January 2020, Rebrab has an estimated net worth of US$3.9 billion.
5. After graduating from a professional school, Rebrab taught accounting and commercial law.
6. He soon left teaching, and started his own accounting firm.
7. His industrial career started in 1971, when one of his clients proposed he take shares in a metallurgical construction company. 
8. In 1995, his main installations were destroyed in a terrorist attack.
9. He then recognized the risks of staying and decided to leave Algeria.
10. In 2016 he acquired El Khabar media group, for $45 million.