s 48 Investigation powers in relation to a financial institution
(1) Notwithstanding the provisions of any other written law or any rule of law, the Public Prosecutor, if he is satisfied that it is necessary for the purpose of any investigation into an offence under subsection 4(1), may authorise in writing an investigating officer to exercise in relation to any financial institution specified in the authorisation all the powers of investigation set out in Part V and in subsection (2). (2) An investigating officer authorised under subsection (1) may, in relation to the financial institution in respect of which he is so authorised— (a) inspect and take copies of any book, record, report or document belonging to or in the possession, custody or control of the financial institution; (b) inspect and take copies of any share account, purchase account, expense account or any other account of any person kept in the financial institution; (c) inspect the contents of any safe deposit box in the financial institution; or (d) request for any other information relating to any record, report, document, account or article referred to in paragraphs (a), (b) and (c). (3) Notwithstanding anything in subsection (2), an investigating officer authorised under subsection (1) may take possession of any account, book, record, report, document, title, securities or cash to which he has access under that subsection where in his opinion— (a) the inspection of them, the copying of them, or the taking of extracts from them, cannot reasonably be undertaken without taking possession of them; (b) they may be interfered with or destroyed unless he takes possession of them; or (c) they may be needed as evidence in any prosecution for an offence under subsection 4(1) or any other written law. (4) Any person who wilfully fails or refuses to disclose any information or to produce any account, book, record, report, document or article under subsection (2) to the investigating officer authorised under subsection (1) commits an offence and shall on conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding one million ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year or to both, and, in the case of a continuing offence, to a further fine not exceeding one thousand ringgit for each day during which the offence continues after conviction. (5) Where any person discloses any information or produces any account, book, record, report, document or article to an investigating officer authorised under subsection (1), neither the first-mentioned person nor any other person on whose behalf or direction or as whose agent or officer the first-mentioned person may be acting shall, on account of such disclosure or production, be liable to any prosecution for any offence under any law, or to any proceedings or claim by any person under any law, or under any contract, agreement or arrangement, or otherwise.