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Republic Act No. 9372 | Official Gazette of the Republic of the Philippines
organization, association, or group of persons shall, within forty-eight (48) hours after the expiration of
the period xed in the written order of the authorizing division of the Court of Appeals or within fortyeight (48) hours after the expiration of the extension or renewal granted by the authorizing division of
the Court of Appeals, be deposited with the authorizing division of the Court of Appeals in a sealed
envelope or sealed package, as the case may be, and shall be accompanied by a joint a davit of the
applicant police or law enforcement o cial and the persons who actually conducted the examination
of said bank deposits, placements, trust accounts, assets and records.
SEC. 32. Contents of Joint A davit. — The joint a davit shall state: (a) the identifying marks, numbers,
or symbols of the deposits, placements, trust accounts, assets, and records examined; (b) the identity
and address of the bank or
nancial institution where such deposits, placements, trust accounts,
assets, and records are held and maintained; (c) the number of bank deposits, placements, trust
accounts, assets, and records discovered, examined, and frozen; (d) the outstanding balances of each
of such deposits, placements, trust accounts, assets; (e) all information, data, excerpts, summaries,
notes, memoranda, working sheets, reports, documents, records examined and placed in the sealed
envelope or sealed package deposited with the authorizing division of the Court of Appeals; (f) the
date of the original written authorization granted by the Anti-Terrorism Council to the applicant to le
the ex parte application to conduct the examination of the said bank deposits, placements, trust
accounts, assets and records, as well as the date of any extension or renewal of the original written
authorization granted by the authorizing division of the Court of Appeals; and (g) that the items
enumerated were all that were found in the bank or nancial institution examined at the time of the
completion of the examination.
The joint a davit shall also certify under oath that no duplicates or copies of the information, data,
excerpts, summaries, notes, memoranda, working sheets, reports, and documents acquired from the
examination of the bank deposits, placements, trust accounts, assets and records have been made, or,
if made, that all such duplicates and copies are placed in the sealed envelope or sealed package
deposited with the authorizing division of the Court of Appeals.
It shall be unlawful for any person, police o cer or custodian of the bank data and information
obtained after examination of deposits, placements, trust accounts, assets and records to copy, to
remove, delete, expunge, incinerate, shred or destroy in any manner the items enumerated above in
whole or in part under any pretext whatsoever.
Any person who copies, removes, deletes, expunges, incinerates, shreds or destroys the items
enumerated above shall suffer a penalty of not less than six years and one day to twelve (12) years of
imprisonment.
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