Fijivillage, 11 September 2017 – Australians are winding up in costly property disputes in Fiji after buying land from “fake chiefs” who are not the rightful owners.
The Courier Mail reports that former Gold Coast lawyer Sean Cousins is warning holiday makers not to fall for the “convincing” scams after discovering he had leased a 100 metres stretch of beachfront land from a vendor who was not the village chief as claimed.
He says Australians, New Zealanders, Americans and Germans should be aware that there are a number of Fijian people who claim to own the land and sell it to them and they don’t own it. Read more…
