There is no mention of Malaysian Official 1 (MO1), his spouse, or any transfers or gifts made to them in the US Department of Justice's (DOJ) latest court filings to stay its civil forfeiture suits on 1MDB-linked assets.

The DOJ had, in its stay applications, provided a summary of the background behind its civil forfeiture suits.

In the document sighted by Malaysiakini, the only persons of interest the DOJ had previously identified and mentioned this time around were Jho Low, his associate-cum-alias Eric Tan, and former 1MDB officer Jasmine Loo.

The document, however, did say that multiple individuals "including public officials and their associates, conspired to fraudulently divert billions of dollars from 1MDB through various means"...