He then hired Lam Duong Hieu, 29, Tong Anh Hoang, 57, and Nguyen Do Cong, 30, as website administrators.

To draw interest from netizens, the administrators uploaded pornographic photos and sex films to the website.

They then earned money selling the pornographic films and hiring out advertising banners on the site, the indictment said.

The website was found to have had around 100,000 visits a day and approximately 300,000 member accounts. Some 1,650,000 items about sex had been posted to the site when it was closed down in November last year.

HCMC police arrested Truong and the four web administrators and confiscated four laptops, ten hard drives, over 300 sex films, and more than 9,000 pornographic photos at the suspects’ houses.

Reported by L.Nga