The FBI said that Aylo Holdings, Pornhub's parent company, was "motivated by profit" when it came to profiting off of women who were sexually exploited.
Aylo Holdings S.A.R.L. was arraigned on a charge of engaging in unlawful monetary transactions involving sex trafficking proceeds, the Justice Department stated in a press release.
According to the DOJ, Aylo hosted pornographic videos created by a company called GirlsDoPorn, which was indicted in 2019 by a federal grand jury in California for, among other charges, sex trafficking offenses in which the company was accused of "deceiving and coercing young women to appear in sex videos which were then posted online without the women’s consent" in United States v. Pratt, et. al.
Since the indictment, several of the operators of GirlsDoPorn have allegedly been convicted in connection to the prosecution.