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Updated:  10/6/05 11:39 a.m.

10/06/05 Russian police probe money laundering by big banks, other companies -
Russian police said Thursday they were investigating suspicions that major banks
and businesses had been involved in money-laundering, though they did not
identify the targets of their probes.

10/06/05 Russian, Dutch offices of Yukos raided in money laundering probe - report
 - Russian and Dutch investigators raided the offices of Yukos subsidiaries in
Moscow and Amsterdam yesterday in connection with a seven bln usd money
laundering probe, the Financial Times reported.

10/06/05 Mich. House Passes Medicaid Whistleblower Act - The Michigan House of
Representatives yesterday passed H.B. 4577, the Medicaid Whistleblower
Protection Statute, by a 106-2 vote. Rep. David Law (R-Commerce Township)
unveiled the legislation in March 2005.

10/06/05 Black Appeals Judge's Order to Let Ravelston Plead in Chicago -   Conrad
Black appealed an Ontario judge's order to let his former holding company,
Ravelston Corp., enter a plea on criminal fraud charges in Chicago.

10/06/05 SEC Charges Ex-Execs of Vision Company - The commission set its sights
on the former CFO and CEO of a bankrupt eyewear distributor and retailer.

10/06/05 Metabolife, one of owners plead guilty to tax evasion - Metabolife
International Inc., which made millions of dollars selling a now-banned herbal
supplement, pleaded guilty Wednesday to filing false tax returns.

10/06/05 State is out $700 million - Adding a new wrinkle to a tangled tale, a
federal judge has overturned a $700 million jury award obtained by state officials
in the collapse of Executive Life Insurance Co.

10/05/05 Delphi Sued over Inventory Deals - Lawsuit also names as defendants
three companies that "entered into sham transactions intended to falsely inflate
Delphi's reported financial results."

10/05/05 650,000 Money Laundering Cases Reported - More than 650,000
suspected money laundry cases have been reported to the Chinese Anti-Money
Laundering Monitoring and Analysis Center, since it established in April 2004.

10/04/05 U.S. Department of Homeland Security Takes Unprecedented Steps to
Ensure Procurement Integrity in the Gulf Coast Region - The Department of
Homeland Security (DHS) has taken unprecedented actions to ensure
procurement integrity is maintained during one of the largest recovery efforts in
the nation’s history.
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