Customers walk at an Apple Premium reseller inside the Moscow GUM State Department store in Moscow, Russia, March 13, 2023. (PHOTO / AP)

MOSCOW - The Tagansky District Court of Moscow fined Apple Inc 12 million rubles (about $133,370) for repeatedly refusing to store the personal data on its Russian users in Russia, RIA reported Thursday.

The US tech giant was found guilty of committing an administrative offense under Part 9 of Article 13.11 of the Code of Administration Offenses of the Russian Federation.

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In July 2022, Russia fined Apple 2 million rubles for the company's refusal to store the personal data of Russian users in the country.