JOHANNESBURG - Disbarred lawyer and reality TV personality Peet Viljoen will appear in court on Friday.
He faces 400 charges of fraud, corruption, forgery and theft.
He is accused of illegally selling municipal property in 2010.
He is charged alongside Resimate Maringa, Dorah Madisha, Wiets Nell, Ronel van Vuuren and Edmund Sibisi. The group allegedly targeted valuable municipal properties.
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They fabricated a paper trail to facilitate illegal transfers to private firms.
The state says no monies were ever paid to the City of Johannesburg or Joburg Property Company.
Instead, almost R15-million was systematically distributed among the syndicate.