US man jailed for one year over Guyana company securities fraud

One of the four men nabbed in September of 2008 in a sting by US federal agents for trying to bribe stockbrokers to buy shares in Guyana Gold Corp., a US over-the-counter company, has been sentenced to one year in prison,  according to the Latin America Herald Tribune.

According to the report John Zanic was sentenced on Monday to one year in prison for participating in a scheme to provide secret bribes to a stockbroker in order to induce the broker to purchase a stock on behalf of his clients. The sentence was imposed in Manhattan