'I started Finbond bank'

PEET VILJOEN'S CLAIM: BLATANTLY FALSE AND MISLEADING, SAYS COMPANY

- Ina Opperman

Peet Viljoen, infamous for the Tammy Taylor Nails franchise saga, claims on his new website, where he sells his virtual services as an attorney, that he started a bank in South Africa.

Like many of his other claims, it is not true. He is also still disbarred in SA.

After he was disbarred as an attorney in 2011, he surfaced again in 2016 when his wife, Melany, started selling Tammy Taylor Nails franchises.

But not all the buyers were happy because they paid "licence fees", but the salons did not materialise.

Many of the franchisees took him to court and courts awarded the potential franchisees millions of rands in damages.

After the last case, in which the buyer was awarded R5.8 million, the Viljoens left the country and posted videos on social media stating they are now living in Miami in the US.

In the videos, they say they hate black people in South Africa and they love the US, urging people to join them there.

Melany also invited women who trained at her nail school in Pretoria to come and work for her there, with Peet saying they had "brought 10 families over".