Rana Abdel-Rahim Koleilat (Arabic: رنا عبد الرحيم قليلات, born January 23, 1967) is a Lebanese Sunni[1] female banker who was accused of being at the head of the biggest banking scandal in the history of Lebanon.
She fled Lebanon to Brazil in 2005, while she was being investigated for the mysterious collapse of Al-Madina Bank,[2] which she allegedly stole $3 billion, but her whereabouts today are unknown.
[7][8] Rana Koleilat has been accused of leading the biggest Lebanese banking scandal in history, involving the waste of more than $1.2 billion.
[9] Apparently having started as early as November 1999, Koleilat is alleged to have carried out a series of forgeries aimed at transferring funds to fake accounts controlled by herself and her associates within the bank.
The bankruptcy of the bank seems a chapter of the conspiracy Rana orchestrated it to cause its liquidation to remove all clues related to its theft and money laundering crimes.
Up to March 2003, Ayyash personally paid $470 million to the Central Bank of Lebanon and sold a large part of his real-estate assets (land, buildings, etc.)
Fortune international magazine developed a thesis according to which the former Prime Minister Hariri would have been assassinated because of his will to open the file of the bank Al-Madina once back in power.