Rana Abdel-Rahim Koleilat

Koleilat, aged 39, was arrested in 2006 in São Paulo, after an anonymous denunciation. She offered a bribe of $94,000 to the Brazilian police. Her lawyer claims that it was a misunderstanding caused by Portuguese language, poorly controlled by Koleilat.

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.) to the Central Bank avoid the bank's collapse, which was not enough to stem the collapse of Bank.

Rana was arrested at the end of 2003, then released on bail in December 2004, which made the front pages of Beirut newspapers, but then fled Lebanon in 2005, shortly after being released.

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. During the period of December 2002 till February 2003, she would have made more than 400 checks issued in her name and in the names of her accomplices, drawn on her account for a total amount of approximately $150 million. This resulted in a liquidity crisis and caused the bank to collapse.

She joined Al-Madina Bank as a clerk in 1985, before becoming an executive of Ibrahim Abou Ayyash, the brother of Chairman Adnan Abou Ayyash.

Rana Abdel-Rahim Koleilat (Arabic: رنا عبد الرحيم قليلات, born January 23, 1967) is a Lebanese Sunni 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, which she allegedly stole $3 billion, but her whereabouts today are unknown.

She born in January 23, 1967 in the Ras-El-Nabeh neighborhood in the heart of Beirut.