Mickky Pacheco
{{Short description|Indian politician (born 1964)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2018}}
{{Use Indian English|date=November 2018}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Mickky Pacheco
| image = Mickky Pacheco (cropped).png
| birth_name = Francisco Xavier Pacheco
| caption = Pacheco in 2014
| office1 = Member of Goa Legislative Assembly
| constituency1 = Nuvem
| predecessor1 = constituency established
| successor1 = Wilfred D'sa
| term_start1 = 7 March 2012
| term_end1 = 18 March 2017
| office2 = Minister of Rural Development and Archaeology and Archives, Goa
| term_start2 = 8 November 2014
| term_end2 = 4 April 2015
| office4 = Minister of Tourism, Goa
| term_start4 = 3 June 2002
| term_end4 = 14 June 2004
| term_start5 = 25 June 2007
| term_end5 = 5 June 2010
| office6 = Captain of Ports
| term_start6 = 3 June 2002
| term_end6 = 14 June 2004
| term_start7 = 17 December 2007
| term_end7 = 5 June 2010
| office8 = Minister of Housing
| term_start8 = 25 June 2007
| term_end8 = 5 June 2010
| office9 = Minister of Agriculture and Animal Husbandry, Goa
| term_start9 = 25 June 2005
| term_end9 = 5 June 2007
| office11 = Minister of Sports and Youth Affairs
| term_start11 = 3 June 2002
| term_end11 = 14 June 2004
| office12 = Member of Goa Legislative Assembly
| constituency12 = Benaulim
| predecessor12 = Churchill Alemao
| successor12 = Caetano Silva
| term_start12 = June 2002
| term_end12 = 30 Dec 2011
| birth_place = Benaulim, Goa, India
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1964|12|12|df=y}}
| party = Indian National Congress
| otherparty = {{plainlist|
- Goa Su-Raj Party
- Goa Vikas Party
- Nationalist Congress Party
- United Goans Democratic Party
- Bharatiya Janata Party}}
| spouse = {{ubl|
- {{marriage|Sara Pacheco|1999|2009|end=divorced}}
- Viola Pacheco}}
| partner = Nadia Torrado
(2006–2010){{Cite web|url=https://www.deccanherald.com/india/pachecos-wife-quizzed-by-goa-cops-75379.html|title=Pacheco's wife quizzed by Goa cops|website=Deccan Herald}}
| footnotes = References
[http://www.goavidhansabha.gov.in/uploads/members/9_profile_FPacheco-12.pdf MLA Profile]
[http://goaassembly.gov.in/member-election-detail.php?id=9&flag=MLA Previous Election Details]
}}
Francisco Xavier "Mickky" Pacheco{{cite web|title=Shri Francisco Xavier Pacheco (Mickky)|url=http://www.goavidhansabha.gov.in/uploads/members/9_profile_FPacheco-12.pdf|publisher=Goa Legislative Assembly|accessdate=9 October 2015}}{{Cite web |title=Goa Minister Mickky Pacheco, Guilty of Slapping Official, Resigns |url=https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/goa-minister-mickky-pacheco-guilty-of-slapping-official-resigns-751911 |access-date=2023-11-23 |website=NDTV.com}} (born 12 December 1964){{Cite web |title=Goa Legislative Assembly |url=https://www.goavidhansabha.gov.in/member_detail.php?mem_id=%2049 |access-date=2024-07-20 |website=www.goavidhansabha.gov.in}} 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.{{cite news|title=Goa Vikas Party supremo to lend colour to new cabinet|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/goa/Goa-Vikas-Party-supremo-to-lend-colour-to-new-cabinet/articleshow/45141082.cms|accessdate=9 October 2015|work=The Times of India|date=14 November 2014|location=Panaji}} 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,{{cite news|author1=Utkarsh Anand|title=Supreme court asks former Goa Minister Francisco Pacheco to 'surrender immediately'|url=http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-others/supreme-court-asks-former-goa-minister-francisco-pacheco-to-surrender-immediately/|accessdate=9 October 2015|publisher=The Indian Express|date=12 May 2015|location=New Delhi}} forcing him to resign from his ministerial post.{{cite news|title=Goa minister Francisco Pacheco, convicted for slapping government servant, resigns|url=http://zeenews.india.com/news/goa/goa-minister-francisco-pacheco-convicted-for-slapping-government-servant-resigns_1572395.html|accessdate=9 October 2015|publisher=Zee News|date=3 April 2015|location=Panaji}}
Political career
Pacheco won the 2002 Legislative Assembly election as a member of the United Goans Democratic Party.{{cite web|title=Shri Francisco Xavier Pacheco Previous Election Details|url=http://goaassembly.gov.in/member-election-detail.php?id=9&flag=MLA|publisher=Goa Legislative Assembly|accessdate=9 October 2015}} He later split and formed the United Goans Democratic Party (Secular), which merged with the Bharatiya Janata Party in January 2005.{{cite news|author1=Sanjay Banerjee|title=Regional party MLA joins BJP|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/Regional-party-MLA-joins-BJP/articleshow/1002793.cms|accessdate=9 October 2015|work=The Times of India|date=27 January 2005|location=Panaji}} He later joined the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) and won the 2007 election. Prior to the 2012 Legislative Assembly election, he left the NCP and joined the Goa Vikas Party (GVP).{{cite news|title=Pacheco joins Goa Vikas Party|url=http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-karnataka/pacheco-joins-goa-vikas-party/article2765555.ece|accessdate=9 October 2015|work=The Hindu|date=1 January 2012|location=Panaji}} 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.{{cite news|title=Mickky opens offices at Loutulim, Nuvem|url=http://www.heraldgoa.in/Goa/Mickky-opens-offices-at-Loutulim-Nuvem-/76720.html|accessdate=9 October 2015|publisher=O Heraldo|date=4 August 2014|location=Margao}}{{cite news|title=Mickky yet to contact Viola, buddies clueless|url=http://www.heraldgoa.in/Goa/%E2%80%88%E2%80%88Mickky-yet-to-contact-Viola-buddies-clueless-/88446.html|accessdate=9 October 2015|publisher=O Heraldo|date=13 May 2015|location=Panaji}}
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 {{INRConvert|5.96|c|year=2012}}. He was an associate of former Chief Minister of Goa Churchill Alemao, but defeated him in the 2002 election.{{cite news|title=The rise and fall of Mickky|url=http://www.epaperoheraldo.in/epaperpdf/442015/442015-md-hr-2.pdf|accessdate=9 October 2015|publisher=O Heraldo|date=4 April 2015}}{{Dead link|date=December 2019 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} 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.{{cite news|author1=Shalini Nair|title=The case of Francisco Mickky Pacheco: From humble beginning, to flashy lifestyle & run-ins with law |url=http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-others/francisco-mickky-pacheco-from-humble-beginning-to-flashy-lifestyle-run-ins-with-law/|accessdate=9 October 2015|publisher=The Indian Express|date=7 May 2015|location=Mumbai}}
Personal life
Belonging to a Catholic family,{{cite news|title=Convicted Goa MLA wants pardon because of hypertension!|work=Oneindia|date=1 August 2015}} Pacheco claims to be from a "very poor family".{{cite news|author1=Soutik Biswas|title='Bling-bling' birthday for Goan politician|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/3304983.stm|accessdate=9 October 2015|work=BBC News|date=10 December 2003}} He dropped out of school in 1981 when he was in seventh standard, and became a tailor "to support his family".{{cite web|title=Francisco Xavier Pacheco|url=http://myneta.info/goa2012/candidate.php?candidate_id=102|website=myneta.info|publisher=Association for Democratic Reforms|accessdate=9 October 2015}} Later he moved to Bahrain and the US. Pacheco says that he is still a fashion designer, and owns a showroom in Paris. Pacheco is a fan of Tupac Shakur and Snoop Dogg, and was a bass guitarist in a local band. 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.{{cite news|title=Fransa to be disbanded: Pacheco|url=http://www.rediff.com/sports/report/nfl/20060323.htm|accessdate=9 October 2015|work=Rediff.com|date=23 March 2006}}
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-led government, but was later given a clean chit due to absence of evidence. His estranged wife Sara Pacheco accused him of bigamy 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, forgery in property deals, and extortion of {{INRConvert|3.69|l|year=2009}} from a casino in 2009.
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.
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