Convicted Health & Racquet fraudsters Rodney Mitchell and Peter Gardener have been tied to two properties that were leased to Virgin Active.
Convicted fraudsters Rodney Mitchell and Peter Gardener – who headed up the Health & Racquet Club empire which collapsed in the early 2000s - have been earning money from Virgin Active leases, News24 has established.
Mitchell and Gardener were jailed between 2011 and 2013 for fraud after they were found guilty of fraud at Leisurenet, which owned Health & Racquet Club. Leisurenet folded with R1 billion in debt, and the gym business was bought by Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Active group – following a personal appeal by the late president Nelson Mandela.Get 14 days free to read all our investigative and in-depth journalism. Thereafter you will be billed R75 per month.
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