Algerian billionaire Issad Rebrab is now barred from running even his smallest companies
Issad Rebrab, 81, has been stripped of the right to manage the small companies he owns outside Cévital, three years after losing the group itself.
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Issad Rebrab, 81, has been stripped of the right to manage the small companies he owns outside Cévital, three years after losing the group itself.
About 60 former Brandt employees plan to sue Cevital in 2 French courts in May, calling their dismissals abusive and seeking civil damages from Algeria's biggest private company.
Issad Rebrab bought a struggling Italian steelworks in 2015 and planned a $400 million revival. Three years later, he sold it and his Brazil iron ore plan collapsed with it.
Issad Rebrab’s Cevital chose not to fund a Brandt rescue, and a French court liquidation ended hundreds of appliance jobs.
A French court ordered Brandt into liquidation, ending Cevital’s European bet and costing about 700 jobs despite a worker-led rescue plan.
A French court put Cevital’s Brandt into receivership, testing Issad Rebrab’s cross-border bet and putting 750 French jobs under court protection.
Rebrab was reportedly arrested on May 17 by agents of the Algerian Central Office for the Fight against Organized Crime.
Rebrab is the seventh-richest man in Africa, with a net worth of $5.1 billion.
Rebrab is the founder and owner of Cevital, the country’s leading private group.