Egypt's former first lady to undergo heart test: report

An anti-corruption agency ordered she be held for 15 days on Friday to allow for investigations into charges she used her husband's influence to amass wealth unlawfully. She was admitted to hospital on Friday after suffering symptoms of a heart attack.

"Suzanne Mubarak is still in the hospital's ICU (intensive care unit) and there is a decision to keep her for 48 hours to undergo a heart catheter," the news agency said, citing hospital manager Mohamed Fathallah.

It was unlikely Suzanne Mubarak would be transferred to a prison facility in the short term.

"Preparing the Torah (prison) hospital (in Cairo) to receive critical cases could take months," said Nazih Gadallah, who heads the prisons service and is an aide to Egyptian Interior Minister Mansour el-Essawy, in remarks broadcast on the Dubai-based Al Arabiya satellite channel.

Former President Hosni Mubarak, who led Egypt for three decades before he was ousted on February 11 in a popular uprising, also suffered heart problems last month during questioning by lawyers investigating abuse of public funds and the killing of protesters.

He has not been transferred to prison, as demanded by state prosecutors.

Aides insist the Mubaraks have done nothing wrong.

Some media reports have suggested their family's fortune may total billions of dollars.

The conspicuous wealth of senior officials was a major popular grievance in a country where around 40 percent of people live on less than $2 per day.

Mubarak was interrogated about his ownership of a Sharm el-Sheikh villa estimated to be worth more than 36 million Egyptian pounds ($6.1 million) and about alleged personal use of a bank account owned by the Library of Alexandria, according to state media.

Suzanne Mubarak was questioned about a Cairo villa and 20 million pounds in an unspecified bank account, it added.

(Reporting by Sarah Mikhail; Editing by Matthew Jones)