🔗 Share this article Isak Robbers Instructed to Pay Only £1 Per Person from £1.2 Million Thefts Charlie Jovanovic admitted their involvement in the crimes Members of an Italy-based clan of burglars who took over £1.2m valued of items, including from former Newcastle United forward Alexander Isak, have been ordered to pay back only £1 per person. Siblings Valentino and Giacomo Nikolov, their female sibling Jela Jovanovic and her son Charlie Jovanovic journeyed to the north-east of England to burgle three houses in April 2024. The group of four were imprisoned for from a decade or less in May 2025. At a proceeds of crime proceeding at Newcastle Crown Court, Jela Jovanovic and the Nikolov brothers were instructed to pay back £1 each while Charlie Jovanovic must hand over over a thousand pounds. Details of the Burglaries The judge previously heard the group arrived by ferry in the United Kingdom on March 27, 2024 and used a RV as their "headquarters", which they stationed at a service area and Durham service stations while utilizing another car to search for properties and execute burglaries. On March 31 they took more than one million pounds of goods including high-end fashion, purses, jewelry and a CBE medal from a residence on Clayton Road in Jesmond, Newcastle, while the owners were on holiday. Valentino was the sole member of the foursome to deny burglary but was found guilty by the jury The next evening, the gang entered a home on a gated cul-de-sac in Whitburn, South Tyneside, and stole designer handbags, jewellery and shoes worth over £100,000. Following surveillance of Newcastle United's training ground for 48 hours, they then acted at the residence of Sweden player Alexander Isak in Darras Hall on April 4, taking ten thousand pounds in money, £68,000 worth of jewelry and the striker's one hundred twenty thousand pound luxury car. The gang, who were described by the prosecution as experienced itinerant burglars, used hand coverings and masks, switched their mobile devices off as they neared their targets and strapped a number plate, which had been stolen from a garage in Chester-le-Street, on to their car with rubber straps. They were apprehended in the Birmingham on 13 April. Thieves stole money and jewelry valued at £80,000 and an Audi from then-Newcastle United striker Alexander Isak's home Legal Hearings and Rulings Valentino had pleaded not guilty to the burglary plot but was convicted by jurors, while his three relations had all entered admissions to the identical accusation. At the criminal gains hearing, lawyer Daniel Cordey said every one of the burglars had profited from their crimes to the amount of £1,266,285.93, which was based on what the victims said they had lost. But Charlie Jovanovic was the only one deemed to have any funds that could be "realised", specifically £1,135.50 which had previously been confiscated by police, the judge heard, with 14 days to be spent in jail if he failed to pay. The remaining members had no money or assets so were directed to make a token amount of £1 each, with seven days in incarceration the consequence if the money was not submitted. Judge Robert Spragg said if they were found with assets in the coming years, "such as driving around in Italy in a sports car or possessing a property", the prosecution could seek new proceedings to "recover the sum due".