27 Nov 2012

Body identified in Tongan wrecked yacht and drug case

4:34 pm on 27 November 2012

Tonga police say the body found on a yacht stashed with cocaine earlier this month has been identified as that of a 35 year old Slovakian man.

He has been named as Milan Rindzak.

His badly decomposed body was found on board a wrecked yacht which ran aground an uninhabited Tongan atoll.

200 kilogrammes of cocaine worth an estimated 120 million dollars was also found on board.

Tonga police have been working with the Australian Federal Police on the case and say they are awaiting instructions on the disposal of the body.