CharacterMinor characters
Tahir Javan
Azerbaijani-American green energy millionaire whom the FIB marks as a terrorist, and whom Michael snipes at a Chumash party in By the Book.
- Nationality
- Azerbaijan
- Occupation
- Green energy
Background
Tahir Javan was born in Azerbaijan in the mid-to-late 1960s and moved to the United States at 13. He later settled on Ineseno Road in Chumash, Los Santos County. He got rich in green energy and funded education projects in both the United States and Azerbaijan. Both the IAA and the FIB believe he has ties to terrorism, although the game never confirms it.
Events of Grand Theft Auto V
Javan appears only in By the Book. After the IAA, and then the FIB, grab home theater installer Ferdinand Kerimov, Trevor Philips tortures Kerimov on Steve Haines' orders to get a description of the target. Meanwhile, Michael De Santa and Dave Norton watch Javan's beachfront house party from a nearby hillside. Several guests look almost exactly like him. Kerimov's answers narrow it down: the target is heavily bearded, chain-smokes and is left-handed. Michael eliminates the lookalikes and shoots Javan with a Sniper Rifle while he smokes on the terrace, and the party scatters.
Trivia
- After the hit, the Los Santos Shepherd and Weazel News report the killing of a beloved philanthropist and say police have no motive.
- Kerimov knows him because he installed Javan's home theater.
- Earlier at the party, Javan can be seen preparing lines of cocaine.