Owner sells Goa’s iconic club Tito’s

Goa’s iconic club Tito’s co-owner  Ricardo D’Souza has declared to sold his club. He is claiming harassment by local authorities as one of the reasons for the sale.

Through social that he had sold his “entire business” in Goa for an “adequate compensation” while declining to disclose who the buyers were. media, he and his brother David D’Souza (co-owner of Tito’s) has made an announcement.

Richard wrote, “It is with sadness but with anger that we have sold our entire business in Goa. I personally have suffered the least as I was compensated adequately and even my future generations won’t have to work,” Alleging harassment by the local authorities D’Souza named  “police, PDA (Planning and Development Authority), CRZ (Coastal Regulation Zone), NGOs, panchayats and Sarpanchs, BDO (Block Development Officer), Deputy Collectors, etc”.

However, D’Souza didn’t take any particular name and specify what kind of harassment he was facing. Thanking Goa’s chief minister D’Souza said,  “the IAS officers, ex-staff, present staff, our neighbours, all my friends and family and the common people of Goa who all contributed to this great Brand called Tito’s.”