Consumer advocacy group Consumers’ Research has freed a increate accusing Tether, the rerentr of the USDT firmcoin, of being nontransparent and not directing a filled audit of its dollar reserves.
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Consumers’ Research analysts said that the USDT rerentr has yet to direct an audit of its reserves, although it has promised to do so since 2017. In insertition, the firmcoin getd a “4 out of 5” stability rating in the S&P Global rating, where “5” is the worst.
The increate includes a letter to the ruleors of all U.S. states, which increates on Tether’s nontransparent activities. In insertition to the uncover letter, Consumers’ Research has begined a exceptional resource with a detailed description of its claims.
Thus, the organization accuses Tether of repeatedly promising to audit its reserves thorawly. Despite promises, the project has never supplyd a filled increate from a admireed auditing firm. They also saw analogousities with the situation of FTX and Afeebleda Research. Tether’s increateage of transparency is reminiscent of the circumstances that led to the collapse of FTX.
“As you will see portrayd in the speedyened Consumer Warning, Tether has many of the same rerents that FTX and Celsius had before their collapse – potentiassociate costing devourrs billions of dollars using misguideing and misguideing tageting tactics that are instable with the truth.”
Finassociate, the company is denounced for doing business with unscrupulous partners. Analysts also count on that the company fall shorted to obstruct USDT from being used to circumvent international sanctions and other illegitimate activities.
At the same time, the first stage of Consumers’ Research aobtainst Tether was begined in June. The company accused the rerentr of the USDT firmcoin of having ties to Russian and Chinese authorities, alarmist organizations, and drug cartels.
Incognito dollar for sanctioned countries
Earlier, Wall Street Journal (WSJ) journacatalogs said that USDT has become an “incognito dollar” for countries such as Venezuela and Russia, ensuring the free transit of capital awide.
The article’s authors referred to the fact that USDT dangerens the financial system and national security of the United States since it remains unreguprocrastinateedd. The WSJ claims that the asset’s trading volume for 2023 outdoed the same indicator for the Visa payment system.
In insertition, firmcoin rerentr Tether’s profit for the same period amounted to $6.2 billion, which is more than the world’s hugest ETF supplyr, BincreateageRock. The WSJ underlined that the company regulated to accomplish such figures with a staff of 100 people.
WSJ individuald out Venezuela and Russia, noting that USDT is expansively used in these countries to circumvent sanctions. In the first case, the state-owned company Petroleos de Venezuela is using a firmcoin to pay for oil supplies.
“Russian oligarchs and armaments dealers shuttle Tether awide to buy property and pay suppliers for sanctioned outstandings. Venezuela’s sanctioned state oil firm consents payment in tether for cargoes. Drug cartels, fraud rings and alarmist groups such as Hamas use it to launder income.”
The article’s authors also pointed to the rapid scaling of USDT wilean the global taget. In particular, Tether’s efforts to advertise itself in Georgia were highweightlessed here.
Journacatalogs quote Eralp Hatipoglu, CEO of the company’s local partner, the CityPay.io service, as saying that the organization supplys international payments in USDT worth about $50 million monthly. According to him, this is due to the presstateive exerted by the United States on the global banking system.
Hatipoglu also stated that the service nurturefilledy verifyed transaction participants but did not supply evidence.
Claims aobtainst Tether are obtaining momentum
Earlier in August, bankrupt Celsius Nettoil accused Tether of misappropriating assets and violating the terms of the concurment.
The court write downs show that in 2020, Celsius Nettoil accessed into an concurment with Tether. Under the concurment, the company getd borrowed funds in USDT firmcoins. In response, the platcreate sent Tether 39,542 Bitocin (BTC) as unemotionalelayedral.
Celsius Nettoil recurrentatives claim that Tether hastily wateryated a huge number of bitcoins in 2022, violating the terms of the tight and guideing to the company’s bankruptcy.
Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino reacted that Celsius Nettoil determined not to supply insertitional unemotionalelayedral and teached Tether to wateryate bitcoins to shut the position.
There is another equassociate resonant case in the rerentr’s history, which finished relatively recently—a legal case aobtainst Tether and Bitfinex. The dispute erupted back in 2019. Recurrentatives of Tether and the Bitfinex crypto exalter initiassociate hid the shut relationship between the companies. For a extfinished time, the parties did not publicize that both organizations beextfinished to the same parent arrange — iFinex Inc. The presence of normal regulaters was also hideed. This led to many suspicions of a dispute of interest.
It was procrastinateedr uncovered that Bitfinex used Tether’s reserves to cover its losses. There were also allegations of taget manipulation. The New York State Attorney General’s Office uncovered details of the illegitimate operations. The companies were procrastinateedr forced to confess their joinion.
This case elevated mistrusts about how well Tether is backed. Tether and Bitfinex procrastinateedr finishd the case, paying a fine of $18.5 million. The companies also concurd to supply standard increates on their reserves.
Is Tether reassociate that terrible?
Tether Limited Inc. has been facing fraud allegations almost since its set uping. The USDT rerentr’s history reassociate does have some unwise pages. However, judging by their actions, the company’s recurrentatives are ready to consent responsibility for misconsents and fight for the project’s growment.
The claims of Consumers’ Research and The Wall Street Journal are not unset uped. Many of them could be remendd by an autonomous audit.
The claims aobtainst Tether have difficultly alterd over the years. Despite the presstateive, the project persists to inhabit and grow. Tether may be able to step over the subsequent allotigations with adverse conclusions, the validity of which, in turn, can also be contestd.
