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'King of Porn' arrested on charges of avoiding paying tax on the £60million profits from his online sex empire The German was extradited from Belgium back to his home country He is accused of dodging tax by paying actors through a subsidiary firm By EMMA REYNOLDS Published: 08:33 GMT, 17 December 2012 | Updated: 14:11 GMT, 20 December 2012 e-mail 89 View comments Settlement: Manwin, owned by Fabian Thylmann (above), alleged that ICM Registry had engaged in price-gouging over its sales of .xxx domain names The owner of YouPorn faces charges of avoiding paying tax on the £60million his online sex empire is said to earn each year.<br><br>'King of Porn' Fabian Thylmann, 34, is being held in a police cell in Cologne, Germany, after he was extradited to his home country from Belgium, where he now lives. Thylmann's online porn video network includes seven of the world's most popular adult sites - including YouPorn, Brazzers, PornHub and MyDirtyHobby - run under the auspices of industry-leading umbrella company Manwin. Over the past decade, the reclusive computer programmer - nicknamed the The Ruler in the Realm of Lust by Germany's Focus magazine - has revolutionised the business of pornography consumption.<br><br>His websites operate by the same principle as YouTube, allowing visitors - around 16 billion per month - to watch videos for free and generating income through advertising. Sex 'pay sites' appear alongside and offer longer, full-length porn videos. Only a fraction are reported to use these, but this is sufficient to bring in revenues in excess of £60m each year. The rise of YouPorn and similar free sex sites has crippled the traditional porn industry, which offers sex film cinemas, pornographic DVDs, magazines and sex shops.<br><br>Now, Thylmann has been accused of being a tax evader by Germany's Die Welt newspaper, according to the Independent. RELATED ARTICLES Previous 1 Next [https://woke.id/SITUSMAXWIN/ slot online] porn, the fight MUST go on: Furious charities hit out... They say they are the most family friendly government ever.... Share this article Share Die Welt claims that German porn actors who performed in videos in their own country were paid by a subsidiary company in Cyprus. Die Welt claims this form of remuneration is in flagrant breach of German tax laws - but Thylmann denies avoiding tax and maintains that he was merely minimising his tax burden in accordance with widely accepted practice.<br><br>X-rated: Thylmann, 34, owns seven of the world's most successful sex sites, including YouPorn, on which users can watch adult videos for free His lawyers will now have to convince German state prosecutors that there is no case to answer. Thylmann is not what you might expect from the owner of the world's most successful porn sites. He is married with two children and graduated from [https://www.shewrites.com/search?q=Brussels%27%20international Brussels' international] school after moving from the German city of Aachen to the Belgian city with his parents as a teenager.