By Selina Lum

THE man caught running the fund-raising company Love Foundation last year while he was an undischarged bankrupt was on Friday jailed eight months on unrelated cheating charges upon appeal.

Former insurance agent Jasons Lim Hua Tong had collected about $22,000 from a construction company and misled it into thinking that he had helped it apply for performance bonds.

Originally convicted and sentenced by a district court last November, he had his appeal against the verdict thrown out by the High Court on Friday.

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