I´m sure about the high number (even higher I hear). I guess it was Petro Tyschtschenko that helped Gunter at KDH among others to import some of them back from India.
I can even go to a shop (pc1.no) down town and buy a new (as in never unpacked) A1200 (he even mentioned "new" A500´s, but that story is not backed by anyone else).