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Francisco Xavier "Mickky" Pacheco (born 12 December 1964) is an Indian politician who is a former three-term member of the
Goa Legislative Assembly The Goa Legislative Assembly is the unicameral legislature of the state of Goa in India. The Assembly meets at the Goa State Legislative Assembly Complex in Porvorim, Bardez. The Eighth Goa Legislative Assembly consists of 40 members. The assem ...
of the
Nuvem Nuvem (formerly a village on the outskirts of Margao) is a town that is part of the Salcete sub-district of South Goa district, Goa, India. Geography Nuvem is situated along the National Highway 17. Neighboring villages include Verna, Maj ...
and
Benaulim Benaulim (''Bannalem'') is a village in the state of Goa, India. Located in Salcete taluka of South Goa district, it neighbours Colva village to the north, Margao in the northeast and Varca village to the south. During Portuguese rule, it wa ...
constituencies and former leader of the
Indian National Congress The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party, or simply the Congress, is a political parties in India, political party in India with deep roots in most regions of India. Founded on 28 December 1885, it was the first mo ...
. 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. In 2015, Pacheco was convicted of assaulting a government official and sentenced to imprisonment for six months, forcing him to resign from his ministerial post.


Political career

Pacheco won the 2002 Legislative Assembly election as a member of the
United Goans Democratic Party United Goans Democratic Party (UGDP) is one of two formerly dominant political parties in the Indian state of Goa. UGDP has its base amongst the Christian part of the population. It was founded in 1983 by Churchill Alemao. UDGP in Jharkhand ...
. He later split and formed the United Goans Democratic Party (Secular), which merged with the
Bharatiya Janata Party The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP; , ) is a political party in India and one of the two major List of political parties in India, Indian political parties alongside the Indian National Congress. BJP emerged out from Syama Prasad Mukherjee's ...
in January 2005. He later joined the
Nationalist Congress Party The Nationalist Congress Party is one of the List of political parties in India#State parties, state parties in India and is one of the major political parties in Maharashtra Legislative Assembly, Maharashtra with a recognised state party statu ...
(NCP) and won the 2007 election. Prior to the 2012 Legislative Assembly election, he left the NCP and joined the Goa Vikas Party (GVP). 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. 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 . He was an associate of former
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Churchill Alemao Churchill Braz Alemao (born 16 May 1949) is an Indian politician who served as the 2nd Chief Minister of Goa from March to April 1990. He is a former two-term Member of Parliament, representing South Goa from 1996 to 1998 and 2004 to 2007. H ...
, but defeated him in the 2002 election. Several criminal cases are registered against Pacheco; he was also alleged by the United States (US) authorities of his involvement in illegal immigration of
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youth to the US and money laundering racket.


Personal life

Belonging to a
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family, Pacheco claims to be from a "very poor family". He dropped out of school in 1981 when he was in seventh standard, and became a tailor "to support his family". Later he moved to
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and the US. Pacheco says that he is still a fashion designer, and owns a showroom in Paris. Pacheco is a fan of
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and
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, and was a bass guitarist in a local band. Pacheco was the owner of a
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club Fransa-Pax FC, which was dissolved in March 2006 as a protest against the
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.


Reception

Pacheco has been involved in various controversies, and has ten criminal cases registered against him. In June 2006, Pacheco slapped a junior engineer Kapil Natekar for not attending his personal assistant's call. Pacheco was sentenced to imprisonment for six months. In June 2010, he was arrested over his alleged involvement in the suicide of his girlfriend Nadia Torrado. He was forced to resign from his ministerial post in the then
Indian National Congress The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party, or simply the Congress, is a political parties in India, political party in India with deep roots in most regions of India. Founded on 28 December 1885, it was the first mo ...
-led government, but was later given a clean chit due to absence of evidence. His estranged wife Sara Pacheco accused him of
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under the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005. Other cases against him are road rage, abusing and threatening a traffic police constable in
Margao Margao (, ) is the commercial capital of the Indian state of Goa. It stands on the banks of the river Sal. It is the district headquarters of South Goa, and administrative headquarters of Salcete sub-district. It is Goa's second largest ci ...
, forgery in property deals, and extortion of from a casino in 2009. Pacheco was probed by the
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when the United States'
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alleged his involvement in illegal immigration of
Goan Goans ( Romi Konkani: , ) is the demonym used to describe the people native to Goa, India, formerly part of Portuguese India (''Estado Português da Índia''). They form an ethno-linguistic group resulting from the assimilation of Indo-Aryan, ...
youth and a money laundering racket.


References

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