Egypt’s prosecutor general has ordered that former president Hosni Mubarak to be moved from his hospital in a Red Sea resort town to a military facility, the state news agency reported.
Prosecutor General Abdel-Maguid Mahmoud said Mr Mubarak was originally supposed to be moved to Cairo’s Tora prison hospital, but it was deemed not yet ready to receive him.
Instead he would stay in a military hospital until the prison facility was ready.
The order followed an examination of the president’s health to determine if he was fit enough to move.
But two senior military officials in the Sinai Desert, where the resort town is based, said they would refuse to move Mr Mubarak, because they did not believe he was well enough to be transferred.
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The two senior officials spoke on condition of anonymity and it was not immediately clear if they had the authority to affect the transfer order.
Mr Mubarak has been in hospital with heart problems after he and his sons were ordered into custody for 15 days on April 13 while being investigated for corruption allegations and their role in the shooting of protesters during the weeks of demonstrations against his rule.
Under the pressure of those demonstrations, Mr Mubarak stepped down on February 11.