Fraud-accused lawyer Peet Viljoen to appear in the Specialised Commercial Crimes Court in Pretoria today for a formal bail application Peet faces 400 charges of fraud, corruption, forgery and theft.
He is accused of illegally selling municipal property in 2010. This alongside Resimate Maringa, Dorah Madisha, Wiets Nell, Ronel van Vuuren and Edmund Sibisi.
The group targeted valuable municipal properties. Peet and his co-accused fabricated a paper trail to facilitate illegal transfers to private firms.
The state says not a cent was ever paid to the City of Johannesburg or Joburg Property Company and almost R15-million was systematically distributed among the syndicate.
Michael Mashile 