Michalis Chrysochoidis, current minister for development, competitiveness and shipping and former minister of citizen protection, admitted on a morning television show interview that he signed the IMF memorandum without having read it at all, arguing that "simply, he had other obligations during that time, as he was fighting against crime":
Pero Michalis Chrysochoidis, actual ministre de Desenvolupament, Competitivitat i Navegació i antic ministre de Protecció Ciutadana, va admetre en una entrevista televisiva que havia signat el memoràndum sense ni tan sols haver-lo llegit, adduint que, "simplement, tenia unes altres obligacions en aquell moment, com ara combatre la delinqüència".