The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has become a financial appendage of NATO, an agent and instrument of Western foreign policy, former IMF Executive Director for Russia Aleksey Mozhin told Sputnik on Friday, shortly before resigning.
"The fund has become a financial appendage of NATO, into a conductor and instrument of the foreign policy of Western countries," Mozhin said in an interview, adding that the fund has become impossible to respect as it has become completely dishonest and unfair.
The IMF has a blacklist of member countries that are discriminated against on the basis of geopolitical preferences, Mozhin added.
Countries such as Iran, Venezuela, Zimbabwe, Syria, Afghanistan, and Myanmar are on the blacklist, he said, noting that recently African countries such as Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso, which have broken away from Western influence and asserted their independence and sovereignty, have also been blacklisted along with Georgia as a "punishment for disobedience."