🔗 Share this article Alexander Isak Burglars Instructed to Repay Just £1 Per Person from £1.2m Heists Giacomo Nikolov confessed to participating in the burglaries Individuals of an Italy-based family of thieves who stole more than £1.2m valued of items, including from former NUFC forward Isak, have been ordered to return only £1 each. Siblings Valentino Nikolov and Giacomo, their sister Jela Jovanovic and her son Charlie Jovanovic journeyed to the northeastern of England to burgle multiple homes in April 2024. The group of four were jailed for from a decade or less in May 2025. At a criminal assets hearing at Newcastle Crown Court, Jela Jovanovic and the brothers Nikolov were ordered to repay £1 per person while Charlie must pay £1,135. Details of the Break-ins The judge previously heard the gang arrived by boat in the United Kingdom on 27 March 2024 and used a campervan as their "base of operations", which they parked at Scotch Corner and Durham rest stops while using a separate vehicle to scout out properties and carry out thefts. On March 31 they stole more than £1m of items including high-end fashion, purses, jewelry and a honor from a house on Clayton Road in Jesmond, Newcastle, while the residents were on holiday. Valentino Nikolov was the sole member of the group to deny the charge but was found guilty by the jury The next evening, the crew broke into a home on a private road in Whitburn, and took designer handbags, valuables and footwear valued at over one hundred thousand pounds. Following surveillance of the football club's facility for two days, they then acted at the residence of Swedish player Alexander Isak in Darras Hall, Ponteland on 4 April, taking ten thousand pounds in cash, sixty-eight thousand pounds valued of jewellery and the striker's one hundred twenty thousand pound Audi RS6. The group, who were described by prosecutors as professional touring burglars, wore hand coverings and masks, turned their phones off as they neared their objectives and attached a number plate, which had been stolen from a garage in a town, on to their car with elastic bands. They were arrested in the Birmingham on April 13. Burglars took money and jewelry worth eighty thousand pounds and an Audi from footballer Isak's home Court Hearings and Sentencing Valentino Nikolov had denied the burglary plot but was convicted by jurors, while his three relations had all entered guilty pleas to the identical accusation. At the criminal gains hearing, lawyer the prosecution said each of the burglars had benefited from their offenses to the value of over £1.2 million, which was determined by what the victims said they had lost. But Charlie was the only one found to have any money that could be "recovered", specifically £1,135.50 which had previously been confiscated by police, the court was informed, with 14 days to be served in jail if he failed to pay. The other three had no assets or property so were ordered to make a token amount of £1 per person, with one week in incarceration the consequence if the money was not submitted. Judge Spragg said if they were discovered with assets in the coming years, "for example driving around Italy in a fast car or possessing a property", the prosecution could initiate new proceedings to "recover the sum due".