Criminal Code (Cap. 9)

Criminal Code (Cap. 9), article 628E

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628E. The European Delegated Prosecutors may order the following investigative measures: (a) request the assistance of the Police to search any premises, land, means of transport, private home, clothes and any other personal property or computer system and to take measures necessary to preserve th e integrity or to avoid the lo ss or contamination of evidence; (b) request the assistance of the Police to obtain the production of any relevant object or document either in its original form or in some other specified form; Cap. 586. (c) request the assistance of the Police to obtain the production of stored computer data, encrypted or decrypted, either in their original form or in some other specified form, including banking account data and traffic data in compliance with the Data Protection Act ; (d) request the courts to issue monitoring orders, investigation orders, attachment orders and freezing orders where there is reason to believe that the owner, possessor or controller of the proceeds will seek to frustrate the judgment ordering confiscation; (e) request the competent authority to intercept electronic communications to and from the suspect or accused person, over any electronic communication means that the suspect or accused person is using relative to the offences established in articles 190C, 190E and 190G; and (f) request the Police to track and trace an object by technical means including the conduct of a controlled delivery relative to offences established in articles 190C, 190E and 190G . CRIMINAL CODE [CAP. 9. 391 Pre-trial arrest or detention of suspect.

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