After Mickky, CBI now grills Sara

PANJIM, SEPT 11 
Day after former minister Francisco ‘Mickky’ Pacheco was grilled for nearly three hours by Delhi Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) sleuths, on Friday, the agency interrogated his estranged wife Sara at its branch office in Bambolim on Saturday.
CBI’s Anti Corruption Branch (ACB) sleuths probing into the illegal immigration racket against Mickky quizzed Sara for over three hours between 3:50 pm and 7 pm.  
Sara escorted by social activist Auda Viegas and local Calvert Gomes reached CBI office, three hours after she was telephonically summoned by the investigating agency.
Speaking to one of the investigating officers, inspector Yadav told Herald that it was a basic interrogation and Sara might be called for further questioning if required.
Mickky, 46, who is an alleged accused of forging documents to send Goans abroad, especially United States, was interrogated on Friday evening. The Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) legislator had said that the agency namely ‘Manpower Recruitment Agency’ was a joint venture started by him and Sara in 1998, whereas its license expired in 2000.
He also claimed that he stopped handling affairs of the agency after he separated from his wife.
To a question whether Sara produced any documents to level her charges against Mickky, the officer replied that they had not asked her to bring any documents.
“We did not ask her to get any documents today. She answered to our queries and we would call her as and when required. This was basic interrogation…it’s only three to four days we have taken up the case probe,” he told the media.
Emerging out of the interrogation chamber on the first floor of the CBI office, Sara refused to speak to media persons. “I am too tired to speak…I was questioned for at least four hours. I cannot disclose,” she reiterated.
Calvert, who accompanied Sara in the interrogation chamber, intervened to say that it was personal and they would not like to speak on the same.
Mickky is in the dock after Bureau of Diplomatic Security in America intimated Indian External Affairs Ministry at Delhi that the legislator might be involved in money laundering and illegal immigration racket.
Following this, Delhi CBI-ACB sleuths flew down to Goa for a thorough investigation even as the former minister’s house at Betalbatim was twice raided leading to freezing of  bank accounts and seizure of mobile phones.
Earlier, officials who quizzed Mickky were heard saying that America had taken strict cognizance of the racket from India after few Indians were found entering US without valid documents.
In his statement, Mickky claimed that the agency has sent 200-odd Goans overseas for jobs after checking their credentials. However, the agency has stopped functioning as it does not posses a license now.