Pacheco denies involvement in money laundering
PTI | 04:09 PM,Sep 05,2010The former minister had to step down in June from the state cabinet after he was booked by crime branch in connection with the death of his close friend Nadia Torrado. Pacheco said that his wife, Sara Pacheco, against whom he has filed a divorce case, had licence of the recruitment agency. "I don't know whether she continued recruiting people or not. I was out of the agency business once we separated," said the former tourism minister. He said that Sara herself had established the agency - Overseas Manpower Private Limited, in 1996 and was running it. "The recruitments were done on ships on seaman visa.Many times the candidates used to travel to different ports and enter the countries, the recruitment agency had no hold over it," Pacheco conceded. The report submitted to MEA had said that Pacheco had USD 15 million in his account in US and had recently transferred USD 2 million to India. "I challenge to prove that I have such huge money in my bank accounts," he said. The former minister said the boys who are working abroad, at times, deposit their money in his account which he withdraws and gives back to their families back in Goa. "All the money is accounted one. Those Goan boys working abroad used to deposit in my account and I used to withdraw them immediately. I have the bank statement which I can keep open for public scrutiny," he said.
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