SINGAPORE, Aug. 7 -- A man who dragged an acquaintance into a shady bank account scheme ended up humiliating him after wrongly thinking he had stolen money.

Singaporean Tan Ming Chuan, 28, was sentenced to six months in jail and fined S$300 (about RM1,035) over the case, news portalCNA reported today.

He had recruited the 25-year-old man, identified in court as A1, to open and hand over control of a corporate bank account in exchange for cash.

But A1's father found out and reported it to the police, leading to the account being frozen with over S$25,700 (around RM88,700) inside.

Tan and his friend, Cheong Wee Kiat, didn't know about the report and assumed A1 had kept the money for himself.

They confronted him late one night at the vo...