Peet Viljoen in the dock on Wednesday during his bid for bail.
While the legal woes of former celebrity lawyer Peet Viljoen are piling up, he is confident he will once again be allowed to practice as an attorney, with an application due to be placed on the court roll for his return.
This was revealed in an affidavit handed to the Specialised Commercial Crimes Court in Pretoria on Wednesday, during his bid to be placed on bail. Viljoen stated that he is “in the process of an application to be placed on the roll”.
He stressed in his application that he will certainly not abscond but that he will face his fraud and corruption trial, comprising 400 charges against him, as he has done for the past 16 years while the case has been hanging over his head.
Prosecutor Willem van Zyl, meanwhile, handed a hefty bundle of documents to the court - all scathing of Viljoen’s past and present conduct - in the State’s opposition to bail.
