He paid a bit to Meni, and hopefully if he pays the next bit (which will be bigger) a payment to asset holders can be made.
I have no interest in this (it looked like a scam from page 1 of this thread, to me), however - this seems completely wrong headed.
meni represented the asset to investors. Investors have lost out. Meni should be doing the honorable thing here and putting himself in 2nd creditor position AFTER the bondholders. This would undoubtedly help Meni's reputational damage control effort
Just my 2 satoshis.