Egypt’s Prosecutor says former President still in Egypt as CNN reports Mubarak to be questioned next week over corruption

Egypt's prosecutor general Abdel Magid Mahmud on Thursday denied reports claiming toppled president Hosni Mubarak and his family left the country and were in Saudi Arabia, insisting they were still in an Egyptian Red Sea resort.

His spokesman Adel Al-Said said that there is no truth to what was reported that Mubarak and family were out of the country and declared that the prosecutor's office had received some legal paperwork on Wednesday signed by the president at his residence in the resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh.

The state-owned daily Al-Akhbar on Wednesday said Mubarak was receiving medical treatment for cancer in Saudi Arabia, citing "informed sources." It said Mubarak, his wife and two sons were living on a military base in the north eastern Saudi city of Tabuk, not far from Sharm el-Sheikh where the 82-year-old went after his resignation on February 11.

Egyptian authorities on Monday slapped a travel ban on Mubarak and his family and also imposed a freeze on their assets.

Meanwhile, CNN reported that Mubarak will be brought to Cairo next week for interrogation over charges of corruption, according to an anti-corruption activist. Documents filed in the case reveal that Mubarak's family has stashed the equivalent of about $150 million in secret bank accounts.

The announcement of Mubarak's impending interrogation came hours after Egypt's Prime Minister Ahmed Shafiq resigned and a former transport minister was picked to appoint a new government, responding to demands by pro-democracy activists to purge Mubarak's old guard from the cabinet.

Military rulers said they had accepted the resignation of Shafiq and appointed Essam Sharaf in this place. Shafiq was appointed by Mubarak, 82, in his final days in office before he stepped down on February 11 after an 18-day popular uprising against his rule which shook the Middle East.