> "We are aware of online discussions about Tether’s lack of publicly-available audits. Periodic audits of our bank balances have been performed by the Taiwan-based auditing firm TOPSUN CPAs & Co. The results of those audits were for the benefit of shareholders and were not in a form suitable for public consumption (to begin with, they were in Mandarin)"

Note that they never said the audit _agreed with_ the numbers listed on the website/exchanges.

Also note that the shareholders of Tether are Bitfinex, who, in addition to being an exchange is... Tether.