Ferdinand Kerimov

Background

Ferdinand Kerimov, also known as Mr. K, is an Azerbaijani-American home theater technician who lives with his family in Morningwood, Los Santos. He is voiced by Armin Amiri. Among his clients are a neighbor of Michael De Santa in Rockford Hills and Tahir Javan, a businessman in Chumash with whom he is friends online.

Events of Grand Theft Auto V

In 2013 the FIB and the IAA are fighting over government funding. The IAA decides Kerimov is a terrorist because of his link to Tahir and believes his cinema equipment is surveillance gear. They fake his death and hold him for six weeks at their headquarters. The FIB sees through the story. In Dead Man Walking, Dave Norton sends Michael De Santa into the coroner's office to find the supposed body, which turns out to be someone else.

In Three's Company, Michael rappels from a helicopter flown by Trevor Philips, with Franklin Clinton covering him by sniper, and grabs Kerimov from an interrogation by Karen Daniels. In By the Book, Steve Haines has Trevor torture him in a Banning warehouse until he gives up Tahir's address and description, and Michael kills Tahir with a sniper rifle.

Ordered to kill Kerimov, Trevor instead drives him to the airport and tells him to leave the country, making the point that torture serves only the torturer.

Trivia

• If Trevor pulls his tooth, it later turns up in Floyd's apartment with the pliers.
• He insists to Karen Daniels that he installs cinema equipment, not surveillance.