Issad Rebrab (Arabic: يسعد ربراب;[1][2] born 1944), is an Algerian billionaire businessman, CEO of the Cevital industrial group, the largest private company in Algeria, active in steel, food, agribusiness and electronics.
His industrial career started in 1971, when one of his clients proposed he take shares in a metallurgical construction company.
He came back in 1998 with Cevital, the biggest group in agricultural business, which later became the largest private Algerian company.
Cevital owns one of the largest sugar refineries in the world, with the capacity to produce 2 million tons a year.
[5] On April 22, 2019, Rebrab was incarcerated at the prison of El Harrach on the public prosecutor's orders, after his arrest as part of a corruption probe.