A Russian has filed a lawsuit in a Moscow court against Apple Russia in which he demands that the company pay him one million rubles (14,000 euros) in compensation for the moral damage caused by leading him to homosexuality.
Apparently the man, identified in the lawsuit as DE Razumilov, has long installed an application for cryptocurrency transactions from the AppStore on his iPhone. This summer, some "unknown men" entered 69 GayCoins in their account , accompanying the transaction with the message in English: "Don't blame until you do that".
The Presnensky District Court has admitted the lawsuit for "inciting homosexuality." The case is being prepared for a preliminary hearing in the middle of this month, according to court data.
The complaint, to which this newspaper has had access, details that Razumilov requires the Apple subsidiary one million rubles in compensation for immaterial damages. In his opinion, the company pushed him "in a manipulative way" to what in Russia is called a "non-traditional sexual orientation", something that caused him "moral suffering and mental damage."
"I really thought that how I was going to judge something without trying, so I decided to try relationships with people of the same sex, and after two months, I can say that I am entangled in intimate relationships with men and I can't turn back, " he writes. plaintiff, whose testimony was disseminated through the 'Govorit Moskva'.
Razumilov notes that because of that message he received is "mired in homosexual relationships." "I have a fixed boyfriend and I don't know how to explain all this to my parents," laments the plaintiff. According to this Muscovite, his life "has changed for the worse and will never be normal again" because of the Waves Wallet application, which according to Russian media Fontanka.ru does not belong to Apple. The company that created it, Waves Platform, is an organization founded in 2016 by a Ukrainian citizen, Alexander Ivanov.
It is not the first time that technology companies are involved in picturesque lawsuits after being blamed for personal problems in Russia. In May 2016, a Moscow court refused to satisfy the claim of the Moscow businessman Roman Maslenikov against the Yandex search engine (considered the Russian Google), in which he blamed the company for his baldness due to the negative news he spreads. He also demanded compensation of 14,000 euros.
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