POLICE yesterday deployed more divers to Natadola Beach in Sigatoka to verify a discovery made by a fisherman last Friday.
According to reports, the villager sighted “suspicious” wrappings under water at the popular picnic spot.
Police spokeswoman Ana Naisoro said they were still trying to verify the reports.
“We have our divers at the beach at the moment searching for what was reported to us,” she said when this edition went to press last night.
At the same time, police have remained tight-lipped on other aspects of investigations into the discovery in July of dismembered body parts of Russian couple Yuri and Natalia Shipulin.
Ms Naisoro said there would be no further information released on the investigation on the couple’s death.
She referred to comments made by police chief of investigations and intelligence, ACP Luke Navela, who maintained that information surrounding the death of the couple would no longer be made public.
The pair were reported missing by business partner Andrew Luzanenko on June 17 when they failed to return from a trip to Nadi Town.
They lived on a farm in Kachiquari, Mulomulo, near the Nausori Highlands.
In July, body parts were found washed up along Natadola Beach.
Through the assistance of INTERPOL, the results of tests carried out in Fiji were sent abroad for DNA tests which confirmed the remains belonged to the couple.
