Yanis Varoufakis, the outspoken former finance minister during the first half of 2015 who later founded a leftist political party, on Friday took to social media to bemoan the fact that he was summoned for a preliminary police investigation over his recent statement regarding personal drug use.
Speaking on a local podcast, the controversial economist-cum politician had said he’d taken “ecstasy” back in 1989 in Australia, reveling in the fact that he then danced for hours but then had a monstrous headache for another week.
“…I’ve taken ecstasy once, and it was an amazing experience…I remember dancing for 15–16 hours as if nothing was wrong, but I suffered for a week afterwards and never really recovered,” he said.
The anti-eurozone polemicist also said that he continues to find cannabis use pleasant, before clarifying that he can no longer obtain the drugs because “no one gives it to me”.
He said he received the summons at his apartment for an appointment with the narcotics unit. In subsequent
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Hello, this is Yanis Varoufakis with a piece of news that would have been hilarious if it weren’t so scary. This morning, two policemen appeared on my doorstep to serve a summons ordering me to the police headquarters to be interrogated by the Greek DEA, our drug busting police… pic.twitter.com/GaoY0Rq2l3
— Yanis Varoufakis (@yanisvaroufakis) January 16, 2026
