“He could now be seeking to pay bondholders and foreign creditors in the [fake ‘petro’] currency amid a plan to restructure the country’s major debt burden, opposition leaders said, but the plan is likely to flop.”
Why not just use Monopoly money to pay off the bonds? After all, it’s probably much more accpetable than the ‘petro’ ...
I think the US Gub'ment/Federal Reserve has the patent on that one. That is pretty much how our Federal Reserve system works.