Section 4: Verification and ascertainment of assets, etc

(1) Where a declaration of assets is returned pursuant to paragraph (a) of subsection (1) of section 2 of this Act, a qualified person shall, if and when so directed by the panel in respect of that declaration, verify the statements set out therein and, as far as possible, ascertain the extent and nature of undisclosed assets, if any, and the nature of transactions affecting those assets.
(2) If the panel or a qualified person is of opinion that the declaration of assets as returned is incomplete in any respect or ought to amplified, the panel or such qualified person may, whether or not any verification has been directed under subsection (1) of this section, require the public officer, or as the case may be any other person, to complete the declaration or furnish additional information by a supplementary declaration of assets in such form as the panel or qualified person, as the case may be, may prescribe or require, and in any such case the provisions of this Act shall apply in respect of such completion or the furnishing of additional information under this subsection as they apply to a declaration in the prescribed form in the Schedule to this Act.
(3) A qualified person shall have power under this section to require any person or authority concerned, to prepare copies of records of assets or of accounts connected with particular assets and, in any proper case, statement of transactions relating thereto, and the person or authority concerned shall deliver the copies so required to that qualified person.
(4) A qualified person having completed his investigation as far as possible, shall report his findings to the panel together with the conclusions drawn by him and the reason therefor and the panel shall likewise thereafter report to the Head of the Federal Government.