On Sunday, the Kathimerini daily published excerpts from a recorded teleconference where Varoufakis allegedly disclosed details of an elaborate parallel payment system plan that involved hacking into government servers.
The former minister claimed in the July 16 conversation among hedge fund leaders that Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras gave him the "green light" a month ahead of the ruling Syriza party’s election victory in January.
"During the Greek government’s negotiations with the Eurogroup, Minister Varoufakis oversaw a Working Group with a remit to prepare contingency plans against the creditors’ efforts to undermine the Greek government," the statement reads.
"The job was strictly to study the operational issues that would arise if Greece were forced to issue scrip [form of credit] or if it were forced out of the euro," Galbraith stressed.
Varoufakis noted that prior to acknowledging the Working Group’s existence, he was subjected to widespread criticism for failing to spell out a contingency plan.
"The Bank of Greece, the ECB, treasuries of EU member-states, banks, international organizations etc. had all drawn up such plans since 2012," the statement added.
Varoufakis’ alleged "Plan B," to be enacted upon ECB-driven bank closures or a so-called Grexit, included setting up secret reserve accounts attached to every tax file number. The "Plan B" team would subsequently hack into the Finance Ministry servers and install a parallel payment system onto the General Secretariat of Public Revenues computers.
Deputy Finance Minister Dimitris Mardas denied in multiple interviews the existence of government-level work on the parallel payment system.
