Rafat Amirov and Polad Omarov both were part of the Thieves Clan under Nadir Salifov (Lotu Guli), He was one of the richest and influential Thieves in Law of our era, but his fate was similar to the fate of other legendary Thieves in Law Vyacheslav Ivankov (Yaponchik) and Aslan Usoyan (Grandpa Hassan), following his death his brother Namik Salifov took over the organization but their influence started to go down in favor of the Azerbaijani Mafia clan of the late Thief in Law Ravshan Lankaransky (Now lead by Ulfat Tagiev - Ruffo Ganjinski).


Rafat Amirov and Polad Omarov decision to work for the Iranian government is most probably related to their will to settle there, as this way they can freely order their man around the globe to commit crime while not being in danger of extradition or getting assassinated by rivals as they will have the protection of the Iranian government, there is also a big Azerbaijani population in Iran, about 12+ Million people, a great place for them to operate from.