Former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis has confirmed that he had a secret plan to hack into people’s tax codes to create a parallel payments system when Greece was on the verge of falling out of the euro.<br /><br /> “We were planning to create surreptitiously a reserve account attached to every taxpayer’s number without telling anyone, just to have this system function at the touch of a button to allow us to give pin numbers to tax file number holders – tax payers”, said Varoufakis. <br /><br /> He sought to play down the idea a contingency plan that had not been implemented. <br /><br /> Varoufakis’ initiative would have enabled the banking system to instantly convert from the euro to the drachma. He outlined the scheme on July the 16th in a conference call to a number of senior financiers. <br /><br /> At the time Greece had been on the verge of tumbling out of the euro in the dispute with creditors over a new bailout deal. <br /><br /> Varoufakis said he had even recruited a childhood friend to hack into his own ministry’
