Bob Pickard resigned as its director general of global communications and rejected his criticism as unfounded.
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Pickard, who worked for AIIB for 15 months, said in a statement on Twitter that resigning was his only course as a “patriotic Canadian.” He complained that the bank was dominated by “Communist Party hacks” who were “like an in-house KGB or Gestapo or Stasi” — the secret police of the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany and Communist-era East Germany, respectively.
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