The Real Estate Agents Licencing Board has assured the real estate agents that they will be looking into the complaints regarding the non-registered agents and money laundering.
The REALB Deputy Chairman, Matt Myers made this comment after an agent, Aren Nunnink from Savusavu raised concerns in the 2016 Real Estate Agents National Workshop at the Novotel Hotel in Lami today that he has lodged several complaints with the board but nothing has been done.
Nunnink who is operating as a real estate agent for the last twenty years said that he had complained about so many cases of international and local unregistered agents who are operating in Fiji.
Myers said that the boards have changed and they do not have that information.
Myers said that it is an issue that they will be looking at and they will be forwarding those complaints to the police.
Nunnink said that he clearly remembers lodging a complaint against a Californian agent operating illegally in Fiji but it took the authorities one year to look into the complaint.
Meanwhile Fiji Financial Intelligence Unit Director, Razim Buksh revealed that five thousand suspicious transactions have been reported in the last two years.
Buksh said in these cases the clients either have given wrong information to the agents or they have brought a large amount of cash into the country illegally.
Buksh said that agents should report these types of cases to FIU immediately.
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