Mickky Pacheco
Pacheco in 2014
Member of Goa Legislative Assembly
In office
7 March 2012 – 18 March 2017
Preceded byconstituency established
Succeeded byWilfred D'sa
ConstituencyNuvem
Minister of Rural Development and Archaeology and Archives, Goa
In office
8 November 2014 – 4 April 2015
Minister of Tourism, Goa
In office
3 June 2002 – 14 June 2004
In office
25 June 2007 – 5 June 2010
Captain of Ports
In office
3 June 2002 – 14 June 2004
In office
17 December 2007 – 5 June 2010
Minister of Housing
In office
25 June 2007 – 5 June 2010
Minister of Agriculture and Animal Husbandry, Goa
In office
25 June 2005 – 5 June 2007
Minister of Sports and Youth Affairs
In office
3 June 2002 – 14 June 2004
Member of Goa Legislative Assembly
In office
June 2002 – 30 Dec 2011
Preceded byChurchill Alemao
Succeeded byCaetano Silva
ConstituencyBenaulim
Personal details
Born
Francisco Xavier Pacheco

Benaulim, Goa, India
Political partyIndian National Congress
Other political
affiliations
Spouse
    Sara Pacheco
    ​
    ​
    (m. 1998, ?)​
    • Viola Pacheco
References

MLA Profile

Previous Election Details

Francisco Xavier Pacheco,[1] better known as Mickky Pacheco,[2] 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.[3] 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.[1]

In 2015, Pacheco was convicted of assaulting a government official and sentenced to imprisonment for six months,[4] forcing him to resign from his ministerial post.[5]

Political career

Pacheco won the 2002 Legislative Assembly election as a member of the United Goans Democratic Party.[6] He later split and formed the United Goans Democratic Party (Secular), which merged with the Bharatiya Janata Party in January 2005.[7] He later joined the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and won the 2007 election.[6] Prior to the 2012 Legislative Assembly election, he left the NCP and joined the Goa Vikas Party (GVP).[8] 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.[9][10]

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 crore or US$1.4 million in 2023).[11] He was an associate of former Chief Minister of Goa Churchill Alemao, but defeated him in the 2002 election.[12] 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.[11][12]

Personal life

Belonging to a Catholic family,[13] Pacheco claims to be from a "very poor family".[14] He dropped out of school in 1981 when he was in seventh standard, and became a tailor "to support his family".[11][15] Later he moved to Bahrain and the US.[11] Pacheco says that he is still a fashion designer, and owns a showroom in Paris.[14] Pacheco is a fan of Tupac Shakur and Snoop Dogg, and was a bass guitarist in a local band.[14] 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.[16]

Controversies

Pacheco has been involved in various controversies,[11] and has ten criminal cases registered against him.[15] In June 2006, Pacheco slapped a junior engineer Kapil Natekar for not attending his personal assistant's call.[5] Pacheco was sentenced to imprisonment for six months.[5] In June 2010, he was arrested over his alleged involvement in the suicide of his girlfriend Nadia Torrado.[12] 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.[12] His estranged wife Sara Pacheco accused him of bigamy under the Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005.[12] 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 lakh or US$12,000 in 2023) from a casino in 2009.[11][12]

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.[11][12]

References

  1. 1 2 "Shri Francisco Xavier Pacheco (Mickky)" (PDF). Goa Legislative Assembly. Retrieved 9 October 2015.
  2. ↑ "Goa Minister Mickky Pacheco, Guilty of Slapping Official, Resigns". NDTV.com. Retrieved 23 November 2023.
  3. ↑ "Goa Vikas Party supremo to lend colour to new cabinet". The Times of India. Panaji. 14 November 2014. Retrieved 9 October 2015.
  4. ↑ 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.
  5. 1 2 3 "Goa minister Francisco Pacheco, convicted for slapping government servant, resigns". Panaji: Zee News. 3 April 2015. Retrieved 9 October 2015.
  6. 1 2 "Shri Francisco Xavier Pacheco Previous Election Details". Goa Legislative Assembly. Retrieved 9 October 2015.
  7. ↑ Sanjay Banerjee (27 January 2005). "Regional party MLA joins BJP". The Times of India. Panaji. Retrieved 9 October 2015.
  8. ↑ "Pacheco joins Goa Vikas Party". The Hindu. Panaji. 1 January 2012. Retrieved 9 October 2015.
  9. ↑ "Mickky opens offices at Loutulim, Nuvem". Margao: O Heraldo. 4 August 2014. Retrieved 9 October 2015.
  10. ↑ "Mickky yet to contact Viola, buddies clueless". Panaji: O Heraldo. 13 May 2015. Retrieved 9 October 2015.
  11. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Shalini Nair (7 May 2015). "The case of Francisco Mickky Pacheco: From humble beginning, to flashy lifestyle & run-ins with law". Mumbai: The Indian Express. Retrieved 9 October 2015.
  12. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "The rise and fall of Mickky" (PDF). O Heraldo. 4 April 2015. Retrieved 9 October 2015.
  13. ↑ "Convicted Goa MLA wants pardon because of hypertension!". Oneindia. 1 August 2015.
  14. 1 2 3 Soutik Biswas (10 December 2003). "'Bling-bling' birthday for Goan politician". BBC News. Retrieved 9 October 2015.
  15. 1 2 "Francisco Xavier Pacheco". myneta.info. Association for Democratic Reforms. Retrieved 9 October 2015.
  16. ↑ "Fransa to be disbanded: Pacheco". Rediff.com. 23 March 2006. Retrieved 9 October 2015.
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