[1] Muagututagata owns a stationery company and has served as president of the Samoa Red Cross.
While he was elected as an independent, he immediately joined the Human Rights Protection Party,[4] and was subsequently appointed Associate Minister for Communication and Information Technology.
In August 2010 a dispute within the Samoa Red Cross saw him purportedly removed as president over claims of misappropriation of funds,[6][2] but he was reinstated later that month.
[7] In April 2013 Speaker of the Legislative Assembly Laauli Leuatea Polataivao ordered an investigation into whether he should lose his seat after the Supreme Court found that he had misappropriated Red Cross funds.
[11] In July 2014 police issued an arrest warrant for Muagututagata after he failed to appear in court on charges of fraud, false accounting, and theft.