The investigation into the land dealings of B.C.'s ex-solicitor-general goes beyond the two properties CTV has uncovered, according to the special prosecutor overseeing the investigation.

Prosecutor Robin McFee told CTV News that there are more land transactions that have brought the attention of the RCMP than those at Bell Road and Rosebank Place in Chilliwack -- deals that made John Les hundreds of thousands of dollars during and after the years he was mayor of the Fraser Valley city.

"I can say that the scope of the investigation is broad and has been fully pursued by the RCMP," Robin McFee told CTV News.

"And while I can't confirm or deny the scope of the investigation, it's beyond the two properties that CTV through its diligence has identified," he said.

The RCMP has questioned neighbours and business partners of Les about developments he spearheaded on two sites north of downtown Chilliwack. When the investigation was made public on March 28, the solicitor-general immediately resigned, but denied wrongdoing.

In both situations, the owners of properties in the Agricultural Land Reserve -- B.C.'s protected farmland -- had applied and failed to develop cheaper farms into lucrative residential lots.

But in both cases, John Les purchased the land through numbered companies and the developments easily passed zoning hearings. In both cases one of Les's brothers, realtors themselves, was connected to the projects, documents and interviews showed.

In one case in Rosebank Place, no one told the Agricultural Land Commission -- the body that regulates properties in the ALR -- that the development was taking place.

Will Rasmussen's family had earlier tried to develop their 11-acre property near Rosebank Place but were rejected twice by the ALC because their developments didn't improve farming on the property.

Rasmussen doesn't understand how John Les was able to quickly acquire the land and subdivide it for himself, putting in residential lots and making a large profit.

"Here my dad was for a long time unable to do anything. And lo and behold, John Les comes in," Rasmussen told CTV News.

"Oh, I raised a lot of questions, but when I learned who was behind the project, what do you do?" Rasmussen said. "I threw my hands up and learned to live with it."

The Rasmussens wanted to sell and it was only a matter of time before the land was bought by a poultry farmer -- and no one in the neighbourhood wanted that, said John Les's realtor at the time, Lorraine Dyck.

John Les had seen this development go to council twice but each time it had failed, so he decided that he would take a crack at it, she said.

"John sat back patiently through three or four years of watching this opportunity that was within his means slip away," she told CTV News in a telephone interview. "But the third time, he thought, if no one else is going to give it a try, he would give it an opportunity."

Through a numbered company, Les bought two nearby properties at Camp River Road (1.6 acres) and Rosebank Place (0.4 Acres), according to his realtor at the time, Lorraine Dyck.

Then he subdivided the Camp River Road into three smaller properties, she said, and then purchased a 6-acre portion of the Rasmussen's 11-acre property.

Together, that made four properties in eight acres, she said, and so he adjusted the boundaries of the block of land to create four valuable two-acre residential lots.

The Agricultural Land Commission says that properties larger than two acres cannot be subdivided and turned into residential lots if they are within the Agricultural Land Reserve.

But Dyck said that she and John Les rearranged the borders so that the ALC didn't even need to be told of the development. Everything was "above-board, totally legal," she said.

"This is why people say, 'Well, he could do it but I couldn't,'" she said. "Well, people who do the developments know the business. They are able to accomplish things whereas somebody like yourself who is not familiar with the land is unable to do it."

Les commissioned his brother Corney to develop one of the properties, said Dyck.

Dyck said she had talked to the RCMP about her role in the property acquisition. But, she said, she didn't mention the investigation to Les.

Documents show that John Les, his business partner Bernie Van Maren, lawyer Lawrence Stinson, and Chillwack approving officer Grant Sanborn all signed off on the land deal.

Les has not yet been interviewed by the RCMP, said the special prosecutor, Robin McFee.

"At an appropriate time I would expect that he might be interviewed," said McFee.

With a report from CTV British Columbia's Stephen Smart