CAIRO - Egypt's Prosecutor General Abdel-Mageed Mahmoud ordered on Monday to ban former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak and his family from traveling abroad, the official MENA news agency said.

He also decided to freeze the assets of the former president and his family, MENA said.

The decision was prompted by many reports received by the attorney general's office on the accumulated fortune of the ousted president and his family inside the country, the office's spokesman Adel el-Saeed said.