A Pacific-wide alert has been issued for the Australian international conman Peter Foster, who is under house arrest in Fiji, has not been seen for two days and may have fled several days earlier to the Pacific island of Vanuatu on a drug-trafficking boat.

The alert has been issued by the Pacific Transnational Crime Co-ordination Centre, a Pacific-wide centre of regional police forces, including the Australian Federal Police. 

As police hunted for Foster in the Vanuatu capital, Port Vila, yesterday, it emerged that he is now suspected of defrauding the Federated States of Micronesia Government of $US580,000 ($F976,266) in a land title scam.

Foster, a serial fraud, was nowhere to be seen although documents with his name on them were among the vessels manifest. 

The confusion over his whereabouts was compounded by a Fiji military spokesman saying his officers had seen Foster in Fiji on Tuesday night, some days after his alleged departure.

A Suva magistrate issued a bench warrant for his arrest on Monday after he failed to appear on three fraud-related charges including forgery and obtaining a work permit by fraudulent means.  

Foster was recently embroiled in sensational allegations that he taped a Fijian political party official admitting last year's election was rigged.

Foster, who has claimed to have been working undercover for the military, accused senior military officers of preventing information he gathered on corruption within the Soqosoqo Duavata ni Lewenivanua Party from reaching Commodore Bainimarama. "I believe there are forces at work within the military, deliberately trying to undermine the commander," Foster said.

Foster said he could not understand why the military had not released more of the secret video tapes he recorded for them, or why it was suddenly treating him as "the enemy within".

"I've done everything they have asked and I have put my neck on the line for them." He said the tapes contained further "evidence" of corruption within the SDL and the Laisenia Qarase Government, overthrown by the coup of December 5.

"I have found out that my letter to Frank (Bainimarama) was never given to him and I have learnt that he has been told that all of the tapes are the same," said Foster. 

"I believe there is a deliberate undermining of the commander and he is being fed some wrong information. I know he would be horrified by it. "The whole thing just stinks and I am fearful of it all. "It's a living nightmare."