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By Agence -Presse | Updated: 18 January 2018 17:05 IST

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Seven lawsuits have been launched in Russia and "hundreds" dozens more are in the pipeline against US tech giant iPhone models, a lawyer for some of the plaintiffs said Wednesday. 344z6o

"We have sent seven lawsuits to Moscow courts -- two have been received by the Tverskoy (Moscow district) court and in all we are going to send ten by the end of the week," Maxime Karpov, representing legal services firm NLF Group, told AFP.

Interfax news agency had earlier quoted the court as saying it had received two of the lawsuits by Tuesday evening demanding compensatioo of RUB 800,000 (around $11,500 or roughly Rs. 9,00,000) from Apple's Russian subsidiary.

NLF Group and the Lex Borealis lawyers firm which is also representing the claimants, said in a t statement they were handling "at least several hundred" claims running into "several tens of millions of rubles".

Karpov told AFP: "If hundreds of complaints have come our way in a few days then I am sure there will be thousands across Russia. We are concentrating on Moscow and region to keep our costs down but there is nothing stopping us ... undertaking similar moves in the provinces."

Apple, facing a US class action and a legal enquiry in into "planned obsolescence" of its smartphones, with a new model released annually, itted last month it was deliberately slowing down performance of older models to bolster "durability."

The company apologised and promised to discount replacement batteries for some handsets following uproar from some iPhone s after news of battery problems stoked concerns the company was unfairly nudging consumers to upgrade.

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