Panaji, Nov 9 (IANS): Days after Chief Minister Pramod Sawant's office filed a police complaint regarding extortion and death threats made to him over phone, several politicians from Goa have now come forth, stating that they too were at the receiving end of such threats.

The politicians who acknowledged that they have received such death and extortion threats include Power Minister Mauvin Godinho, functionary of the Goa Forward party and a former BJP functionary.

"Have been receiving threat messages seeking ransom from #InternationalNumber, have formally lodged complaint with @DGP_Goa. Requesting @DGP_Goa to kindly investigate into it!" Goa Forward Party general secretary Durgadas Kamat tweeted.

Former office bearer of the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha, Pranav Sanvordekar, also said that he had received death threats from an unknown number.

On November 7, the Goa Chief Minister's office in an FIR filed before the Panaji town police station had said that an unknown person had sent him an extortion demand and a death threat over a phone message from an international number.

The unknown person had earlier called Sawant and abused him over the phone, before sending him the message.

Last week, after Transport Minister Mauvin Godinho had filed a complaint with the South Goa district police, one person had been arrested for sending him death threats over the phone. "The police have arrested one person so far," Godinho said.

In January this year, three persons from Maharashtra were arrested by the Goa Police for trying to extort Rs 3 crore from Goa's PWD Minister Deepak Pauskar. The three accused had warned the minister that he would be "fixed" if he did not cough up the money.