Mickky Pacheco
Pacheco in 2014
Member of Goa Legislative Assembly
In office 7 March 2012 – 18 March 2017
Preceded by	constituency established
Succeeded by	Wilfred D'sa
Constituency	Nuvem
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 by	Churchill Alemao
Succeeded by	Caetano Silva
Constituency	Benaulim
Personal details
Born	Francisco Xavier Pacheco (1964-12-12) 12 December 1964 (age 59) Benaulim, Goa, India
Political party	Indian National Congress
Other political affiliations	Goa Su-Raj Party Goa Vikas Party Nationalist Congress Party United Goans Democratic Party Bharatiya Janata Party
Spouse	Sara Pacheco ​ ​ (m. 1999; div. 2009)​ Viola Pacheco
Domestic partner(s)	Nadia Torrado (2006–2010)[1]
References MLA Profile 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]

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]

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 crore or US$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]

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]

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 lakh or US$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]