Moscow, August 21 (RAPSI) - Russian food safety watchdog Rospotrebnadzor has temporarily shut down four McDonald’s restaurants in central Moscow over alleged sanitary violations, RIA Novosti reported Wednesday. 

Administrative cases have been opened against four restaurants including Russia's first McDonald's on Bolshaya Bronnaya street which was opened in 1990. The other three restaurants are located on Svobodny Prospekt, Prospekt Mira street and Manezhnaya Square not far from the Kremlin.

The case materials are to be shortly submitted to court.

Rospotrebnadzor says that inspections of McDonald’s restaurants will continue.

Early Thursday unscheduled checks were conducted at McDonald's restaurants in Sverdlovsk region. The watchdog claims to have received numerous complaints from local residents over sanitary violations and quality of food.