JOHANNESBURG - The case against disbarred lawyer Peet Viljoen has been postponed to 8 July.
The former reality TV personality made a brief appearance in the Specialised Commercial Crimes Court in Pretoria on Friday. The senior counsel who will represent Viljoen was not available 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.