BEIJING: Canada's finance minister says it is suspending activity with a Chinese-founded development bank while it investigates complaints by a Canadian who resigned from the lender that it is dominated by "Communist Party hacks," and his country should not be a member.

The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) confirmed Wednesday in an email that Bob Pickard resigned as its director general of global communications and rejected his criticism as unfounded.

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