The owner of Pornhub has admitted to profiting from sex trafficking and has agreed to pay a $1.8million fine as well as damages to women who appeared in videos posted without their consent.

Aylo Holdings, секс-секундомер Pornhub's parent company, reached a deferred prosecution agreement to resolve a charge of engaging in unlawful monetary transactions involving sex trafficking proceeds, the US Attorney's Office said.

The deal calls for the Montreal-based company to pay more than $1.8million to the US government, as well as make separate payments to the individual women harmed by the trafficking. 

It also requires appointment of an independent monitor for three years, after which the charges will be dismissed.

'It is our hope that this resolution, which includes certain agreed payments to the women whose images were posted on the company's platforms and an independent monitorship brings some measure of closure to those negatively affected,' Breon Peace, US Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, said in a statement.




Pornhub's parent company has admitted profiting from sex trafficking and has agreed to pay a fine of $1.8million. (File image)

James Smith, head of the FBI's New York office, said Aylo Holdings 'knowingly enriched itself by turning a blind eye' to victims who told the company they had been deceived and coerced into the videos.