58. Power to obtain information

Subject to the provisions of section 56, an investigation officer shall have the power to:-

obtain details pertaining to banking relationships including bank accounts, deposits, loans, other facilities and other similar banking instruments, and information relating to the use of online banking facilities;

obtain details pertaining to financial instruments or products and services from any other financial institution or designated non-financial businesses and professions or virtual assets service provider;

obtain details relating to access and the use and carrying out of transactions pertaining to or using crypto currency, bitcoins, block chain transactions and other similar transactions using digital media;

obtain details pertaining to financial instruments or products and services from any financial institution unregistered and non-regulated;

obtain details pertaining to virtual trading such as forex, futures and commodity trading;

obtain copies of and information contained in declarations made to the Commissioner-General of Inland Revenue;

obtain copies of and information contained in and relating to declarations made to the Director-General of Customs;

obtain declarations and information provided to the Registrar General or to the Registrar General of titles;

obtain copies of deeds and other conveyances filed in land or title registries;

obtain information available at the head of the department of foreign exchange;

obtain telephone and mobile phone call records, transmission details, call termination details, use of digital data services, traffic data, access to internet portals and gateways;

obtain details pertaining to equity ownership, share and other equity transactions;

obtain the extraction of data and information from any digital device including digital data storage devices:

obtain a direction on any person who is believed to possess the username and password or any other information to gain access to a digital device, digitized application, website, server, or any other cyber or networked environment;

take steps necessary to unencrypt any digital device or digital storage or to break or bypass its access codes;

require any principal or chief executive officer of any institution or any other person of such institution to notwithstanding any provision of any law, contractual or other obligation that demand such institution or other person to maintain confidentiality relating to data and information that they may have in possession or to which they have access to provide -

obtain any information sought directly by an

obtain an order on any person not referred to above to provide any data or information in such form and manner as may be specified in such order including a certified copy of any existing document or any other information not referred to above which may be necessary for the conduct of investigations;

access any public or private repository of data and information relating to any property, and information relating to persons claiming ownership, possession, having custody, dominion or control over such property.