MERIDIAN Services director Timoci Lolohea remains in his family home at Nadonumai as police investigate complaints by people who say they were promised paid jobs in Kuwait by him in exchange for money.
Mr Lolohea allegedly obtained more than $1million in 2005.
Nadonumai resident Waisale Dina said that the police and government officials visited Lolohea last week.
"He is still in his home and I think it was police and the CID people who came to see him" said Mr Dina.
A police taskforce has been working around the clock to gather reports from various police stations after an awareness campaign on the issue by police led to more complaints against Lolohea.
Between 2004 and 2005, Mr Lolohea allegedly promised 20,000 jobs to locals for individual service fees ranging from $250 to $1000.
It is alleged that Mr Lolohea escaped the country after the then government handed the matter over to the authorities to investigate.
Police spokesman Sergeant Atunaisa Sokomuri said the taskforce team was working with police stations around the country after individuals and church groups demanded that Lolohea be investigated and made to refund the money he allegedly pocketed.
"The taskforce has also got its hands on complaints which were lodged a few years back," said Mr Sokomuri.
Mr Lolohea surfaced at Nadonumai a little more than two months ago and has been working since then, recruiting people for jobs in the United Arab Emirates.
Meanwhile, Suvavou villagers are still awaiting word from their lawyer Kitione Vuataki, as the elders of the village have given them the go-ahead to dismantle Mr Lolohea's home at Nadonumai.
Suvavou villagers claim to have paid about $10,800 to send their unemployed youths to Kuwait where lucrative pay was allegedly promised by Mr Lolohea.
From the $10,800, only the passports were returned.
