Mubarak move called off for now, would be ‘life threatening’

Cairo (CNN) — Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak’s won’t be moving to a military hospital in Cairo at present because his “health has deteriorated and transferring him may be life threatening at the moment,” the country’s prosecutor-general said Tuesday.

Adel Saeed, the prosecutor’s spokesman, said the Interior Ministry, which is organizing the move, made the decision after the medical team in charge of Mubarak submitted a new medical report that determined he would be at risk if he were transferred.

Mubarak has been under detention at a hospital in the Red Sea resort city of Sharm el-Sheikh and Egyptian authorities ordered that he will be transferred to “Tora Prison hospital once it is ready to receive him.”

Authorities are investigating him for the deaths of hundreds of activists during the recent uprising in Egypt, and he is also being probed for allegations of corruption and misuse of state funds.

The former leader has been living in Sharm el-Sheikh since the unrest forced him out of office February 11. He entered the hospital because of health problems including heart palpitations and blood pressure issues.

A team of prosecutors questioned Mubarak on Friday about the deaths of the protesters, the prosecutor general’s office said, but also about the negotiation of a gas deal with Israel at prices that were allegedly below “international standards.”

The prosecutor general’s office said that amounted to a waste of public funds. Mubarak’s two sons have also been detained and are already in custody in Cairo.

CNN’s Mohamed Fadel Fahmy contributed to this report.