🔗 Share this article Isak Burglars Ordered to Pay Just £1 Per Person from £1.2m Thefts Jela Jovanovic confessed to participating in the burglaries Individuals of an Italian family of burglars who stole over £1.2 million valued of items, including from ex- NUFC striker Alexander Isak, have been mandated to pay back only £1 each. Siblings Valentino Nikolov and Giacomo, their female sibling Jela and her son Charlie travelled to the north-east of England to raid multiple homes in April 2024. The group of four were jailed for between a decade or less in 2025. At a proceeds of crime proceeding at Newcastle Crown Court, Jela and the brothers Nikolov were ordered to repay £1 each while Charlie Jovanovic must pay £1,135. Particulars of the Burglaries The judge previously heard the gang came by ferry in the United Kingdom on March 27, 2024 and used a campervan as their "base of operations", which they parked at Scotch Corner and Durham service rest stops while using a separate vehicle to search for properties and execute burglaries. On March 31 they took more than one million pounds of items such as high-end fashion, handbags, jewellery and a CBE medal from a house on a street in Jesmond, while the owners were on holiday. Valentino was the sole member of the group to deny burglary but was convicted by jurors The following night, the gang broke into a home on a private road in Whitburn, South Tyneside, and took designer handbags, jewellery and shoes worth over one hundred thousand pounds. After scouting out Newcastle United's facility for two days, they then acted at the home of Sweden player Mr Isak in Darras Hall on 4 April, taking ten thousand pounds in cash, sixty-eight thousand pounds valued of jewelry and the player's one hundred twenty thousand pound luxury car. The gang, who were described by prosecutors as experienced touring burglars, used gloves and masks, turned their phones on silent as they approached their targets and strapped a number plate, which had been stolen from a garage in a town, on to their vehicle with elastic bands. They were apprehended in the Birmingham area on 13 April. Thieves took cash and jewelry valued at eighty thousand pounds and an car from then-Newcastle United striker Alexander Isak's home Legal Proceedings and Rulings Valentino had pleaded not guilty to conspiracy to burglary but was found guilty by the court, while his family members had all submitted guilty pleas to the identical accusation. At the proceeds of crime hearing, lawyer Daniel Cordey said each of the defendants had benefited from their crimes to the amount of £1,266,285.93, which was determined by what the affected parties said they had had stolen. But Charlie was the sole individual found to have any money that could be "realised", namely £1,135.50 which had previously been confiscated by police, the court heard, with 14 days to be spent in prison if he failed to pay. The other three had no assets or property so were ordered to pay a nominal fee of £1 each, with one week in incarceration the consequence if the money was not paid. The judge Robert Spragg said if they were discovered with property in the coming years, "for example operating Italy in a fast car or owning a property", prosecutors could initiate new proceedings to "satisfy the amount due".