The Mubarak family fortune worth about 1,700 million euros.
United Kingdom seeks to identify the assets of the Egyptian president in the event that the funds could come from illegal activities.
Switzerland was the first country to freeze any assets of Mubarak.
The British Serious Fraud Office (SFO) seeks assets and millions of pounds in cash allegedly secretly entered the United Kingdom by the Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak and his family, said this The Sunday Times Sunday
According to the British Sunday, the Mubarak family fortune amounted to 1,500 million pounds ($ 1,710 million euros), which would be in Swiss and British banks and invested in property in London, New York and Los Angeles.
One asset that has drawn attention to the SFO is a private equity firm in London's Belgravia district and be linked to Mubarak's sons, Gamal and Alaa.
On Friday, Switzerland was the first country to freeze assets that may be of Mubarak.
Like Switzerland, the UK is to identify assets in the event that these funds could come from illegal activities, highlights The Sunday Times.
"People expect us to look at this money if we were aware of it, and treat to repatriate to benefit the people of those countries, "he told the director of the SFO, Richard Alderman, referring to the case of Mubarak and former Tunisian President Ben Ali, who fled his country on 14 January after the "jasmine revolution".
According to Sunday, apparently some British banks have helped to Mubarak and his family to take money out of Egypt.
HSBC and Barclays Banks have interests in Egypt, but on Saturday declined to comment on this development, the newspaper says.
Mubarak's wife Suzanne is the daughter of a Welsh nurse who married an Egyptian doctor, while his son Gamal, 47, worked in London and the UK apparently considers his second home, according to Sunday.
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