Political parties have agreed on excluding former ministers from the new government, but according to leaked reports the new line-up is a “disguised” ministerial quota naming 18 non-partisan figures equally divided between Muslims and Christians, al-Joumhouria daily reported on Tuesday.

Former Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn, a Lebanese-French-Brazilian national, arrived in Lebanon on Sunday aboard a private plane, LBCI TV reported Monday.

Ghosn has been put on trial in Japan on charges of embezzling funds from the Renault-Nissan group and was released on bail in April.

Hizbullah and the AMAL Movement have agreed with Prime Minister-designate Hassan Diab on the formation of a purely technocrat government, sources close to Diab said.

“The government will not comprise figures from the outgoing government,” the sources added in remarks to al-Jadeed TV.

State Prosecutor Ghassan Oueidat on Monday requested information from Swiss and Lebanese authorities about the alleged transfer abroad of large sums of money by a number of Lebanese politicians.

The National News Agency said Oueidat has sought the help of “the Swiss judiciary, the Special Investigation Commission of Banque du Liban and the Banking Control Commission of Lebanon.”

Protest movement groups on Monday filed a lawsuit with Financial Prosecutor Ali Ibrahim against caretaker Telecom Minister Mohammed Choucair and others over what they called the “illegal” extension of the contracts of Lebanon’s mobile network operators Alfa and touch.

The lawsuit accuses Choucair and anyone identified during investigations of “the waste of public funds and the violation of the public auditing law” by seeking to “smuggle the extension contract with touch and Alfa in violation of the law, despite the report of the telecom parliamentary committee and a previous lawsuit by the financial prosecution against the directors of the two firms on charges of illicit enrichment and graft.”

Hizbullah deputy chief Sheikh Naim Qassem on Monday called on Prime Minister-designate Hassan Diab to disregard the “veto of those who have decided not to take part” in the new government, in an apparent reference to caretaker Prime Minister Saad Hariri and his al-Mustaqbal Movement.

“The phase of choosing the premier has ended, seeing as Dr. Hassan Diab has been appointed at PM-designate and his mission must be facilitated,” Qassem said.

Dozens of protesters held sit-ins near banks in the Aley district town of Qabrshmoun on Monday, part of their focus on banking policies and unprecedented capital controls to protect their deposits.

Hizbullah on Monday denounced the U.S. air strikes against a pro-Iran militant group in Iraq that killed 19 fighters.

A meeting is expected between President Michel Aoun and PM-designate Hassan Diab to “evaluate” the latter’s meetings with Hizbullah, AMAL Movement and other political parties on the formation of the government, al-Joumhouria daily reported on Monday.

The journalist Salem Zahran, who is close to Hizbullah, on Sunday divulged some details pertaining to the new government.

“The names of the men ministers have become near-final while the search is ongoing for women ministers to complete the line-up,” Zahran tweeted.