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By Samuel Rubenfeld

A roundup of corruption-related news from Dow Jones and other sources. You can also accept a weekly newsletter chronicle of Corruption Currents here.

Bribery:

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A comparison Indonesian anti-corruption central wants to make passionate temptation a crime underneath a nation’s anti-corruption law. (Bernama)

The FBI has sent agents to a Philippines to examine millions of dollars of payments done by Japan’s Universal Entertainment Corp. to a politically connected consultant there relating to a casino project, sources told Reuters. The association declined to comment.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid disavowed any links to a temptation box in that a male claims to have funneled income to others in an try to get him  to meddle in a Federal Trade Commission case. (Roll Call)

The series of companies admitting guilt to a U.K. Serious Fraud Office scarcely doubled in a past mercantile year. More here. (Financial Times sub req, Thebriberyact.com)

Fresh papers submitted by Swedish prosecutors show TeliaSonera executives seeking hit with a daughter of Uzbekistan’s president. The association denies any accusations of temptation or corruption. (Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

The FCPA Blog runs a post comparing hurtful officials to puppies, praises a Indonesian anti-corruption organisation for a persistence and sees a sovereign decider deliberation a broadening of a range of a FCPA in a Siriwan case.

Tom Fox learns some lessons from a HSBC Holdings PLC settlement. The FCPAProfessor digs into a Eli Lilly settlement. Mike Volkov makes predictions for 2013. The FCPAmericas blog provides tips on tips. Thebriberyact.com reviews 2012.

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. had a bad week final week on several fronts. (Demos)

Fraud:

The FBI’s Washington, D.C. bureau is homing in on financial rascal cases. (Bloomberg)

A U.K. DJ got 9 years in prison for fraud. (news release)

Money Laundering:

Cyprus fought back opposite accusations, done mostly by German officials, that it’s a heart for income laundering by Russians, observant it entirely complies with general manners opposite a problem. The FATF says Germany has a bigger money-laundering problem than Cyprus. More here. (Reuters, Wall Street Journal, Financial Mirror, Euractiv)

JPMorgan Chase Co. is said to be confronting an sequence to tie money-laundering controls. But is a agree sequence an adequate punishment? Separately, a bank is reportedly weighing either to censure a CEO for a London whale. More here. (Bloomberg, Emptywheel, Bloomberg, Global research)

A probity in Madrid is scheduled to hear a case over either a Spanish journal libeled a Russian businessman by stating allegations that he helped a boss of Equatorial Guinea refine money. (Olive Press)

The International Monetary Fund said a country’s efforts on fighting income laundering should be deliberate when assessing a financial stability. (Thomson Reuters Corporate Compliance Complete sub req)

An research of collateral moody to and from Russia is here. (Financial Times sub req)

Sanctions:

A customer warning by Clyde Co. pointed out that new European Union sanctions on Iran will tie a hands of shippers all around a globe. (Bloomberg)

Iran’s apportion of trade and attention acknowledged that sanctions have crippled Iran’s economy. To that end, KLM said it’s canceling all flights to Iran as of April. Austrian airlines did a same. More here and here. (Al Monitor, AP, AFP, Radio New Zealand, Arutz Sheva)

Iranian-Americans are sending medicine behind home amid a necessity due to U.S. sanctions. Hundreds of thousands of Iranians with critical illnesses have been put during approaching risk due to a measures. (BBC, Guardian)

Tehran denied any purpose in a hacking of U.S. bank websites. Meanwhile, it conducted troops exercises in a Strait of Hormuz. (Bloomberg, Reuters)

Spanish military arrested dual organisation and seized a contents of a lorry firm for Iran installed with materials unfailing for use in a Islamic state’s arch program. Police examined a association where a dual organisation worked; a association couldn’t be reached for comment. (Reuters)

The United Nations attach� to Syria says no domestic fortitude is approaching soon. Armed groups are infiltrating Lebanon. Damascus might reason a accumulate of uranium, Western and Israeli officials said. (Al Jazeera, Al Monitor, Reuters, )

A Syrian insurgent organisation labeled by a U.S. as a unfamiliar apprehension classification has ambitions over Syria. (Al Monitor)

Transparency:

Business interests are fighting a offer during a SEC to need a avowal of domestic spending. (The Nation)

An research of a new Rhode Island clarity website is here. (WPRI)

More coverage of a U.S. State Department weighing in on a extractive avowal order is here. (The Hill)

Whistleblowers:

Michael Woodford, a former arch of Olympus Corp. , pronounced in a column that prefers a tenure “bell ringer” over whistleblower. (Fraud Magazine)

General Anti-Corruption:

About 10,000 Russians protested a ban on Americans adopting Russian children upheld in response to a U.S. law sanctioning sanctions opposite Russian human-rights abusers. More here, here and here. (Reuters, AP, NY Times, Al Jazeera, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty)

Slovenia’s anti-corruption arch said both a primary apportion and a antithesis personality should renounce due to swindle claims. About 10,000 protesters joined a call. More here. (AP, AP, EUObserver)

Six former officials of a scandal-ridden city of Bell, Calif. go on hearing this week in a large crime case. (AP)

Bulgaria’s anti-corruption elect launched a probe into “Dunes Gate.” (Sofia News Agency)

An Egyptian probity ordered a retrial of suspended personality Hosni Mubarak over a deaths of protesters and allegations of corruption. More here, here and here. (Wall Street Journal, AP, NY Times, Financial Times sub req)

Sri Lanka’s arch probity was impeached on allegations of crime that she denies. (BBC

The Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC is looking at recouping a Libor excellent waste by going after worker bonuses. (Financial Times sub req)

Disgraced superlobbyist Jack Abramoff continues his penance for his before work. (Upworthy)