  We analyse 20 star cluster candidates projected mostly in the bulge direction
($|\ell|<60^\circ$). The sample contains all candidates in that sector
classified by \citet{FSRcat} with quality flags denoting high probability of
being star clusters. Bulge contamination in the colour-magnitude diagrams
(CMDs) is in general important, while at lower Galactic latitudes disk stars
contribute as well. Properties of the candidates are investigated with 2MASS
CMDs and stellar radial density profiles (RDPs) built with field star
decontaminated photometry. To uncover the nature of the structures we
decontaminate the CMDs from field stars using tools that we previously
developed to deal with objects in dense fields. We confirm in all cases
excesses in the RDPs with respect to the background level, as expected from the
method the candidates were originally selected. CMDs and RDPs taken together
revealed 6 open clusters, 5 uncertain cases that require deeper observations,
while 9 objects are possibly field density fluctuations.
