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Greek Cyber Crime Unit To Investigate Varoufakis' Secret Drachma Plan
It’s been exactly one month since Yanis Varoufakis resigned his post as Greek Finance Minister, but his legend has only grown.
The self-proclaimed "erratic Marxist" whose exploits in the Greek finance ministry include driving German FinMin Wolfgang Schaeuble to the edge of insanity and posing for a Paris Match photoshoot that was anything but austere, one-upped himself on July 16 when, in a recorded call with "international hedge funds," he detailed a James Bond-ish plot to set up a parallel payment system in Greece by creating secret accounts using tax filer numbers for individuals and corporations which he would obtain by hacking into the troika-controlled General Secretary of Public Revenues. The full audio recording of the call was eventually released.
Varoufakis would later tell The Telegraph that "they" are out to get him for his "cloak and dagger" drachma plan. "The context of all this is that they want to present me as a rogue finance minister, and have me indicted for treason," he told Ambrose Evans-Pritchard.
Although it’s not entirely clear why having a Plan B constitutes a punishable offense (indeed, under the circumstances, it seems like the punishable offense would be not having a plan B), it looks like the chief prosecutor of the Athens First Instance Court is prepared to portray Varoufakis as a cyber crime mastermind and will now launch a full scale investigation into the General Secretariat for Public Revenues plot. Here’s Kathimerini with more:
Ilias Zagoraios, the chief prosecutor of the Athens First Instance Court, has asked Greece’s cyber crime unit to investigate whether the public revenues service was hacked as part of an effort to create a parallel payment system under ex-Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis.
The former minister has claimed that he talked to a ministry employee about hacking into the General Secretariat for Public Revenues’ online system during alleged attempts to create a scheme that would help the government overcome liquidity problems.
Varoufakis did not clarify whether this breach took place. However, his claims prompted an internal investigation by the general secretary for public revenues, Katerina Savvaidou.
Now, a second probe will be carried out by the cyber crime unit, which should be able to provide its findings to Zagoraios before Savvaidou completes her investigation.
So we will now apparently learn whether Varoufakis and his elite "cyber crime" team actually succeeded in hacking into the public revenues service.
If they did, we imagine opposition lawmakers will push for the ex-FinMin to be drawn and quartered (politically speaking, of course) for attempting to ensure that in the event Berlin decided to shut the Greek banking system down entirely, the country wouldn't descend into outright chaos.
That, apparently, may be a crime.
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Nice shirt!
It looks better under a leather jacket
He should buy another one just like it and throw them both out!
that'll teach him to fight the powers that be.
I guess they already used the "rape the African chambermaid"ploy on DSK.
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Dude you just don't foch with the boyz........they'll pull your intestines out and make you sing hail to the queen..........
Down by the river.......I SHOT my baby.
Attention Yanus, Liberace called and he wants his shirt back.
effing backward world where a countriy's finance minister advocatiing for his coutry's currency can be charged a traitor.
Looks like the central bankerz "investment" in NSA surveillance tapes is "paying off " for them by recording "traitorous:" thoughts and words of central bank rebels.
Did that order come from Merkel? Or Schauble?
Greek freedom and independence keeps growing.
Anyone who can wear a shirt like that and carry it off with style..
A Greek govenment minister trying to protect the country against thieving robbing banksters should be highly praised
Yep. Something sure stinks about this apparent vendetta. Don't piss off the string pullers.
Better yet piss on the string pullers.
Kill the string pullers.
I don't condone violence but it seems to me that the only effective way of removing the string pullers is to kill them. Bodies on the street.
Kill or be killed.
I don't think it's so much a vendetta as a warning shot to anyone in spain, italy, portugal, etc whose job could require them to perform due dilligence in a similar situation. remember - only kashkari and/or his ecb/chinese/russian equivalents get to "break the glass" & if they even syspect plebs of such insolence the glass is going to be broken over their heads!
will be interesting to see how these scenarios play out within the us - puerto rico's the canary but politically expendable unlike chicago, new york, california, etc. there's only so many "muppets" on whom to pawn bad debt, the fed can only eat so much of it & trying to impose greek-like austerity on heavily democratic cities/states would be political suicide for hillary yet it's hard to imagine her donors voluntalrily accepting haircuts either (they're certainly avoided it since 08) but the math has to be brought into balance somehow...
think I'll go order some more eagles...
Looks like the new leaders of Greece (Germany and Wolfgang Schaeuble) are going to get the last laugh on Varoufakis
I don't think so. The lastest country to call for Germany to leave the Euro is France. Schaüble is being called Dr. Evil and is in a power struggle with Merkel. Pass the popcorn.
Varoufakis took on the bankers and didn't kiss their ass. He must now pay in public. At least he gets this tribunal instead of a bullet to the head like so many others who disobey the World bankers' orders.
Perhaps he just wanted to know if it could be done.
I'm guessing there was only one way to find out.
Is asking "Can it be done?" and "How would we if we did?" a crime? I speculate about crap I don't do all the time...
I kind of figure they were working out what was possible, but needed the approval of Tsipras etc (the govt) to go ahead with the plan.
No need to hack your own data, just pass a bill, unless the data has been locked down by a foreign entity, then you have every right to get to it.
Uh, will the shirt also be investigated? That alone is a Greek tragedy.
No prophet is accepted in their own land.
The Sanhredin have history of framing cases to suit their own end.
Bullshit. Challenge the system, this is what happens.
That's the shirt you steal from your boyfriend's closet and wear like a private trophy. See if he notices or objects, learn a lot about him.
Not that I have ever stolen a boyfriend's shirt or medical scrubs or, you know, anything like that...
That's the shirt your boyfriend leaves in his closet, hoping some girl will steal it from him, learn a lot about her.
Need more details on how it works.
Maybe they're investigating the wrong party.... maybe?
I mean,,, talk about owned!
Join the EU now, your country will prosper and your citizens will have EU freedom.
Hook, line and sinker.
Most egregious bait and switch ever. (we'll give you democracy, prosperity, but you got occupation, austerity, poverty, disenfranchisement, wholesale national asset giveaway, your Greece is now our Greece)
After seizing (or before seizing) a country, they always get rid of who can potentially recover power.
Salvador Allende (Chile), Gen. Rafael Trujillo (DR), Gamal Abdul Nasser (Egypt, US must control SUEZ Canal), Mohamed Morsi (Egypt, US must control SUEZ Canal), Jacobo Árbenz (Guatemala), Noriega (Panama, kidnapped and incarcerated in a US prison for life, because the US needs to control the Panama Canal), Yasser Arafat (Palestine, poisoned), Hugo Chavez (Venezuela, Poisoned), Ahmad Shah Massoud (Afghanistan, assassinated 2 days before 9-11, had to clear the way for US attack), Saddam Husein (Iraq), Muammar Qaddafi (Libya), Victor Yanukovych (Ukraine), Varoufakis (Greece)
Well I think it is great. They will end up makng a matyr of him and make him even more popular and supported in Greece.
The more they attack him the more they bring the public sympathy and support to him, and make him the next Greek PM. lol
That is the IDEA
"Greece’s cyber crime unit"
I hope for them that their 1200/75 baud modem still works and that the phone bill is paid !
Yet they won't investigate to try and figure out who stole all the money Greece "borrowed".
Then again, investigation by the political class would involve self-incrimination...and that's not happening.
That "edge of insanity" that Yanis was driving Scheuble to, was it the edge coming back from insanity or the edge going to insanity.
Whilst they are investigating whether Yanis tried to change things for the better they could also look into how Goldman Sax fiddled the books that dropped Greece in the shit in the first place.
I wonder how much it costs the Euromeisters to get one Greek to rat on another.
Bastards.
he detailed a James Bond-ish plot to set up a parallel payment system in Greece by creating secret accounts using tax filer numbers for individuals and corporations which he would obtain by hacking into the troika-controlled General Secretary of Public Revenues.
Why did he need to hack into "troika-controlled" accounts? Didn't he control all the accounts that would be necessary for his Plan B initiative to avoid chaos?
I guess the fashion police are next.
These are game-theory boys, now best friends with Israel. So maybe they threw the fight. And maybe there never was a Plan B. And the game now is to make one up.