New Delhi: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) has filed a case against a man for posing as a Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) official and threatening the promoters of a hospital chain to “forget” dues more than Rs 16 crore owed by another hospital.The man, identified as Maayank Tiwari from Vadodara, claimed to be a director (government advisory) and was collecting crores of rupees by either threatening people or using the PMO tag to “settle disputes”.This was flagged by Chirag Panchal, an undersecretary with the PMO, to the CBI, which booked Tiwari. Tiwari threatened the managing director of of Dr Agarwal’s and forced him to settle a dispute of over Rs 16.43 crore with two Indore-based doctors.Photo courtesy: Vibes of IndiaAccording to the news agency PTI, Dr Agarwal’s entered into an agreement with two doctors who ran the Indore-based hospital to join the franchise for which over Rs 16 crore was paid. The Indore hospital allegedly started violating the terms of the agreement which resulted in a dispute and Dr Agarwal’s wanted their money back and the termination of the agreement.The high court appointed an arbitrator to negotiate a settlement, and the arbitrator in an interim injunction asked the Indore-based hospital to deposit Rs 16.43 crore within four weeks. “During the dispute, the promoters of Dr Agarwal’s started getting messages and calls from Tiwari to forget the alleged dues and settle the matter with the doctors running the Indore hospital,” the PTI report says.This is the second time in less than 100 days that Maayank Tiwari has posed as a top PMO official. In June, he threatened a trustee of a private university in Vadodara and was tried to force a prestigious school to grant admission to two children who he claimed were his friend’s children. At that time, he spelt his name as Mayank. In the latest case, he has added an “a” to his first name.After the trustee of the school became suspicious, he alerted the police. The Gujarat police arrested Tiwari in June and said that was charging money for admissions and posing as a PMO official to threaten schools and college owners.His exploits were minor compared to Kiran Patel, an Ahmedabad resident who posed as additional director (strategy and campaigns) of the PMO, bragged about his RSS connections and availed of Z security in Jammu and Kashmir to undertake “official visits”. His wife also made similar claims. The couple is currently in jail. There are eight complaints against Kiran Patel and his wife for threatening people using the PMO tag and extorting money.Patel and his wife were also accused in several land fraud cases. In one case, he allegedly cheated a person of Rs 80 lakh as commission claiming he would settle the land dispute. He cheated a former BJP MLA for land and construction activities. Patel visited Jammu and Kashmir four times in six months claiming he was on official duty. He also toured top security and other government facilities.Inputs from Vibes of India were used in this article.