Dimitri Popov

Background

Dimitri "Dima" Popov is a Russian businessman who once co-owned a pharmaceutical company with Professor Maxim Rashkovsky. Among that company's holdings was the Humane Labs and Research facility, which later passed to a shadow company tied to Merryweather Security. Popov is so paranoid that he never goes anywhere without a ring of bodyguards, and he drives a Baller. He is voiced by Alex Galper and arrived with the Heists update in March 2015.

Role in GTA Online

Popov appears in a single job, the Prison Break setup mission Prison Break - Wet Work. Agent 14 orders his death, and the crew tracks him to the mansion he is renting in Richman Glen in the Vinewood Hills. The player has to get past his guards and kill him; his death is part of the groundwork for freeing Rashkovsky and, later, for the raid on Humane Labs.

Personality

Popov dismisses any suggestion that he is paranoid, insisting he is simply prepared, and points to his partner sitting in prison as proof that caution pays.

Trivia

• His rented mansion is modeled on the Castillo del Lago in the Hollywood Hills.
• The same Richman Glen house later becomes the home of Miguel Madrazo.