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Daijiworld Media Network - Panaji (SP)

Panaji, Mar 26: German consulate in Goa has taken cognizance of the state police’s failure to register a complaint against local politicians, filed by a German national, who had provided vital help for the Interpol to nab an alleged international criminal.

A German national, Kalenborn Heinz Willi, residing in the coastal village of Chopdem, had filed a police complaint against the local Sarpanch for harassing him. Willi had helped Interpol to nab Polish hitman Adam Mancic, who was wanted by the German police in connection with the murder of a builder in Berlin. Goa police’s Crime Branch had arrested Mancic from the house of Willi on March 15 and thereafter, Willi reportedly has been facing trouble from the local Sarpanch for sheltering the criminal.

“It has been ten days since the police complaint was lodged and still the FIR has not been filed,” Girish Raikar, a German consulate official in Goa, noted. The German consulate feels that Willi has been targetted for real estate on which his house in Goa stands.

“It looks like the Sarpanch wants him to move out of the house. The reasons are not just that he had harboured the criminal,” Raikar felt.
 
 Willi had earned appreciation from the German embassy in Delhi for his role in helping the police nab Mancic. “It is certified that Heinz Willi Kalenborn and his wife Anita had been requested by the undersigned to allow Adam Mancic, subject of an international search and arrest warrant, to stay at their residence, so that the Goa police and Interpol, New Delhi got the opportunity to arrest him,” reads a letter of appreciation written by Thomas Lubnau, a police liaison officer attached to the German embassy in New Delhi.

Pernem police when contacted, admitted that they have received the complaint. Police inspector Uttam Raut Desai said that they have got assurance from the Sarpanch to ensure that there is peace in the village.