Mickky Pacheco

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Mickky Pacheco
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Pacheco in 2014
Member of Goa Legislative Assembly
In office
7 March 2012 –18 March 2017
Spouse
    Sara Pacheco
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    (m. 1999;div. 2009)​
    • Viola Pacheco
Domestic partner(s)Nadia Torrado
(2006–2010) [1]
References

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Previous Election Details

Francisco Xavier "Mickky" Pacheco [2] [3] (born 12 December 1964) [4] is an Indian politician who is a former three-term member of the Goa Legislative Assembly of the Nuvem and Benaulim constituencies and former leader of the Indian National Congress. [5] He held portfolios of Rural Development, Archeology and Archives, Tourism, Captain of Ports, Housing, Agriculture, Animal Husbandry, and Sports and Youth Affairs in the state cabinet. [2]

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In 2015, Pacheco was convicted of assaulting a government official and sentenced to imprisonment for six months, [6] forcing him to resign from his ministerial post. [7]

Political career

Pacheco won the 2002 Legislative Assembly election as a member of the United Goans Democratic Party. [8] He later split and formed the United Goans Democratic Party (Secular), which merged with the Bharatiya Janata Party in January 2005. [9] He later joined the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and won the 2007 election. [8] Prior to the 2012 Legislative Assembly election, he left the NCP and joined the Goa Vikas Party (GVP). [10] Pacheco's wife Viola Pacheco was made the GVP president in 2012 he quit Goa Vikas Party and joined the Goa Su-raj Party; he lost the Nuvem Constituency in the hands of sitting ZP Member of Nuvem Wilfred D'sa. [11] [12]

In 1981, while he was in seventh standard, Pacheco dropped out of school and became a tailor "to support his family". As per his affidavit in the 2012 Legislative Assembly election, he has assets worth ₹5.96 crore (equivalent to ₹11 croreorUS$1.3 million in 2023). [13] He was an associate of former Chief Minister of Goa Churchill Alemao, but defeated him in the 2002 election. [14] Several criminal cases are registered against Pacheco; he was also alleged by the United States (US) authorities of his involvement in illegal immigration of Goan youth to the US and money laundering racket. [13] [14]

Personal life

Belonging to a Catholic family, [15] Pacheco claims to be from a "very poor family". [16] He dropped out of school in 1981 when he was in seventh standard, and became a tailor "to support his family". [13] [17] Later he moved to Bahrain and the US. [13] Pacheco says that he is still a fashion designer, and owns a showroom in Paris. [16] Pacheco is a fan of Tupac Shakur and Snoop Dogg, and was a bass guitarist in a local band. [16] Pacheco was the owner of a football club Fransa-Pax FC, which was dissolved in March 2006 as a protest against the All India Football Federation. [18]

Reception

Pacheco has been involved in various controversies, [13] and has ten criminal cases registered against him. [17] In June 2006, Pacheco slapped a junior engineer Kapil Natekar for not attending his personal assistant's call. [7] Pacheco was sentenced to imprisonment for six months. [7] In June 2010, he was arrested over his alleged involvement in the suicide of his girlfriend Nadia Torrado. [14] He was forced to resign from his ministerial post in the then Indian National Congress-led government, but was later given a clean chit due to absence of evidence. [14] His estranged wife Sara Pacheco accused him of bigamy under the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005. [14] Other cases against him are road rage, abusing and threatening a traffic police constable in Margao, forgery in property deals, and extortion of ₹3.69 lakh (equivalent to ₹9.3 lakhorUS$11,000 in 2023) from a casino in 2009. [13] [14]

Pacheco was probed by the Central Bureau of Investigation when the United States' Bureau of Diplomatic Security alleged his involvement in illegal immigration of Goan youth and a money laundering racket. [13] [14]

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  6. ↑ Utkarsh Anand (12 May 2015). "Supreme court asks former Goa Minister Francisco Pacheco to 'surrender immediately'". New Delhi: The Indian Express . Retrieved 9 October 2015.
  7. 1 2 3 "Goa minister Francisco Pacheco, convicted for slapping government servant, resigns". Panaji: Zee News. 3 April 2015. Retrieved 9 October 2015.
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  12. ↑ "Mickky yet to contact Viola, buddies clueless". Panaji: O Heraldo. 13 May 2015. Retrieved 9 October 2015.
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  15. ↑ "Convicted Goa MLA wants pardon because of hypertension!". Oneindia . 1 August 2015.
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