Chinese Communist party accused of infiltrating Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank

The communications chief of the multilateral lender that is China’s answer to the World Bank has resigned, alleging that the institution is run by Communist party members who “operate like an internal secret police”. 

Bob Pickard, the Canadian director-general for communications of the Beijing-headquartered Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, said he flew to Tokyo on Wednesday because he feared for his safety after raising concerns about what he claimed was the party’s infiltration of the lender.