28K. Admissibility of statements and documents of persons who are dead or cannot be traced

Notwithstanding any written law to the contrary, in any proceedings against any person for an offence under this Act or the laws specified in the Schedule—

any statement made by any person to an investigating officer in the course of an investigation into any offence under this Act or the laws specified in the Schedule; and

any document, or copy of any document, seized from any person by an investigating officer of the Authority in exercise of his powers under this Act or the laws specified in the Schedule, shall be admissible in evidence in any proceedings in Malaysia before any court, where the person who made the statement or the document or the copy of the document is dead, or cannot be traced or found, or has become incapable of giving evidence, or whose attendance cannot be procured without an amount of delay or expense which appears to the court unreasonable.