Even after she was taken off an investigation into alleged financial crimes by a money transfer company, the defiant Lebanese prosecutor charged ahead. She showed up at the company's offices outside of Beirut with a group of supporters and a metal worker, who broke open the locked gate.

Ghada Aoun obtained data from Mecattaf Holding Company that she contends will reveal the identities of people who sneaked billions of dollars out of Lebanon amid the financial meltdown that has hit the country.

The Canadain federal government has tasked a committee with investigating money laundering, gambling and drug smuggling operations through casinos in Vancouver, in which a network reportedly affiliated with the Iranian regime and Hizbullah are involved, al-Arabiya network revealed on Tuesday.

Two associations said on Monday they had filed a legal complaint against Lebanon's central bank governor Riad Salameh whom they accuse of fraudulently amassing a large fortune in Europe.

The Sherpa NGO, which specialises in fighting financial crime, and the "Collective of victims of fraudulent and criminal activities in Lebanon" said they were also targeting Salameh's brother Raja, his son Nadi, his nephew as well as a close associate at the central bank, Marianne Hoayek, in the case.

The Internal Security Forces on Monday arrested a gang of ten Syrians for stealing electricity cables and wires from the public network of the Electricity du Liban leading to extended power outages in the Mountainous areas of Chouf and Aley.

President Michel Aoun met at Baabda Palace the members of Lebanon’s delegation leading the indirect sea border talks with Israel, as the talks prepare to resume this week, the National News Agency reported on Monday.

French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian is reportedly expected to limit his upcoming meetings in Lebanon with President Michel Aoun and Speaker Nabih Berri, the Saudi Asharq el-Awsat newspaper reported on Monday.

Lebanese authorities have arrested two brothers suspected of smuggling drugs in pomegranate shipments to Saudi Arabia, leading the kingdom to ban Lebanese fruits and vegetables, the outgoing interior minister said Sunday.

Mohamed Fahmi told local MTV television station during a tour to the Lebanon-Syria border that Interpol is also following a third suspect. He gave no further details, saying only that the case is still under investigation.

Greek Orthodox Metropolitan of Beirut Elias Aude on Sunday lamented that officials in charge of the country are “gambling with what’s left of it for the sake of securing their own interests, preserving their gains and staying in their posts.”

This comes “over the corpse of the country and its citizens,” Aude decried in his Easter sermon.

Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi on Sunday lashed out at Lebanese politicians and called on them to put an end to the conditions and counter-conditions that are delaying the formation of the new government.

“The government is not for you, but rather for the people. The ministries are not for you, but rather for the people. The rule is not for you, but rather for the people. The institutions are not for you, but rather for the people. Enough with the preconditions that do not serve the country and the citizens but rather politicians’ interests,” al-Rahi said in his Sunday Mass sermon.

President Michel Aoun is “still waiting for Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri” to make a move regarding the formation of the new government, sources informed on Baabda’s stance said.

The president has told Maronite Patriarch Beshara al-Rahi that he has “no intention” to obtain a one-third-plus-one share in the new cabinet, the sources added, in remarks to the al-Anbaa news portal of the Progressive Socialist Party.