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Originally Posted by SZNY (Post 19193049)

German article about Manwin
http://m.welt.de/article.do?id=polit...rregt-die-Welt

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The Porn Empire - A German excite the world

Fabian Thylmann has risen in a short time the most powerful entrepreneurs in the Internet Porn: His company Manwin revolutionized the business with the digital sex - with questionable methods. By Florian Flade and Lars-Marten nail

The most powerful group in the global porn business resides in Luxembourg, in a simple office building of glass and concrete. "Manwin" stands at the mailbox and sign at the entrance to the fourth floor. The company's name is virtually unknown outside the industry.

Of the sites Youporn, Pornhub or My Dirty Hobby but almost everyone has heard. Or they looked. There you see every day at 55 million porn film. In the digital world Manwin is a sex empire with 1.3 billion clicks a day.

Out of the office on the fourth floor Manwin employees can have large windows on the Boulevard Royal and forty feet deep gorge of Pétrusse valley overlook. But apparently no one enjoys the view. Behind the glass door, the reception is orphaned, some cardboard boxes standing around, cables hanging from the wall, at the desks still sticking price tags. The head, a 34 year old German, is not to be found. "Always nobody there," said a Chinese woman who works at a bank on the ground floor.

More than 100 million euros per year
The empty head office is not the only mysterious to Manwin. Mysterious is the boss. The Porn King likes to wear hooded sweatshirt and jeans, even at business meetings. His name is Fabian Thylmann. Photos on the Internet have a slightly overweight man with bubenhaftem face and glasses. He looks like a student in an advanced semester. He should be shy, lives in Belgium. But he comes from Aachen.

On paper, Fabian Thylmann is the sole master of the digital sex empire Manwin. According to documents of the Luxembourg Trade Register, he is CEO and sole shareholder of the holding company, which is to conduct of this office in Luxembourg of a network of subsidiaries.

There are large offices in Montreal and Hamburg. Smaller offices in Los Angeles, London, Cyprus. At many locations around 1000 people are employed, and the trend: rising fast. Industry analysts estimate the turnover of Manwin group of more than 100 million euros a year.

The programmer to sex tycoon
The story of Fabian Thylmann is that of an astonishing rise. At first glance, it has something of the rags-to-riches cliché: A small computer programmer from the Rhine Province, it brings in just five years, the most powerful sex tycoon of the Western world. Much in Thylmanns CV Stars recalls other entrepreneurs in the digital age. On Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, the Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, or even an Apple icon Steve Jobs.

They have all used the Internet for developing a unique business idea - and deserves so billion. In public, they love to play the nice boy next door in jeans and T-shirt. As business people, they are however all the tricks - determined and assertive. Thylmann could fit into the series of these visionaries . Only in one respect he is different. The others with Facebook, Google, or Apple technology satisfies needs of the people, of whom nobody knew in advance that it would give them time.

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Originally Posted by Paul Markham (Post 19193699)

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Damn! $362 million investment from mysterious places.......this is gonna make a great movie some day :1orglaugh (or at least a good episode of "American Greed on CNBC)

One does not simply give someone else 362 million dollars through US brokers without there being a paper trail as to who that money came from. If someone looked hard enough, they could find it.

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Originally Posted by DWB (Post 19194227)

One does not simply give someone else 362 million dollars through US brokers without there being a paper trail as to who that money came from. If someone looked hard enough, they could find it.

IF it came from U.S. brokers.

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Originally Posted by HushMoney (Post 19194276)

IF it came from U.S. brokers.

Assuming the story is accurate, one of them said a Delaware broker was used for the "loan," which means wherever the money came from, it came through the USA, which means there is a perfect paper trail of it. And almost $400 million... you can bet those funds were triple verified to make sure they were not funding terrorism somewhere.

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Actually brokered the loan is a financial services provider in the State of Delaware, which is considered a tax haven.

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Originally Posted by DWB (Post 19194324)

Correct.

Most U.S. banks will call you to confirm large dollar amounts. You will need to provide some documentation for Patriot Act or whatever banking laws they would like to hide beyond for being nosey. In short, there is bank/IRS documentation of some kind, somewhere.

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Originally Posted by HushMoney (Post 19194200)

Damn! $362 million investment from mysterious places.......this is gonna make a great movie some day :1orglaugh (or at least a good episode of "American Greed on CNBC)

Where does that information come from?

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Originally Posted by DWB (Post 19194324)

There was an article a few years ago showing that the US was the easiest place to launder money.

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Originally Posted by Barefootsies (Post 19194344)

Yes, anything over $10,000. So I'm sure nearly $400 million grabbed a few eye balls and had to fill out a few forms.

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Originally Posted by slapass (Post 19194486)

There was an article a few years ago showing that the US was the easiest place to launder money.

Don't question that for a second.

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Originally Posted by slapass (Post 19194486)

There was an article a few years ago showing that the US was the easiest place to launder money.

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Too bad for Manwin that they lost out to Hustler in their quest to enter the stock market through the back door, when they were outbid recently for New Frontier Media (NOOF).

Given Fabian's new legal woes with the German tax authorities, I imagine that whatever thoughts Manwin may have had about doing an IPO are pretty much dashed now.

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