🔗 Share this article Alexander Isak Burglars Instructed to Pay Just £1 Each from £1.2m Heists Charlie Jovanovic admitted their involvement in the burglaries Individuals of an Italian clan of burglars who took over £1.2 million valued of goods, among them from former Newcastle United forward Isak, have been ordered to return just £1 per person. 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 foursome were jailed for from six and 10 years in May 2025. At a proceeds of crime hearing at Newcastle Crown Court, Jela and the brothers Nikolov were ordered to repay £1 each while Charlie must hand over £1,135. Particulars of the Burglaries The court was told the group came by ferry in the United Kingdom on 27 March 2024 and employed a RV as their "headquarters", which they parked at a service area and Durham service rest stops while using another car to search for targets and carry out thefts. On March 31 they stole more than £1m of items including designer clothing, purses, jewellery and a CBE medal from a house on a street in Jesmond, while the owners were on holiday. Valentino Nikolov was the sole member of the foursome to deny burglary but was found guilty by the jury The following night, the gang broke into a home on a gated cul-de-sac in Whitburn, and took designer handbags, valuables and shoes valued at more than one hundred thousand pounds. Following surveillance of the football club's training ground for 48 hours, they then acted at the residence of Sweden player Alexander Isak in Darras Hall, Ponteland on 4 April, taking ten thousand pounds in cash, £68,000 valued of jewellery and the player's one hundred twenty thousand pound Audi RS6. The group, who were portrayed by prosecutors as professional touring burglars, wore hand coverings and masks, switched their mobile devices off as they neared their targets and strapped a license plate, which had been taken from a garage in a town, on to their vehicle with elastic bands. They were arrested in the Birmingham on 13 April. Burglars stole cash and jewelry valued at £80,000 and an Audi from footballer Isak's property Court Hearings and Rulings Valentino had pleaded not guilty to conspiracy to burglary but was convicted by the court, while his family members had all submitted guilty pleas to the identical accusation. At the proceeds of crime hearing, prosecutor Daniel Cordey said every one of the burglars had benefited from their offenses to the value of £1,266,285.93, which was determined by what the victims said they had had stolen. But Charlie Jovanovic was the only one found to have any funds that could be "recovered", namely over a thousand pounds which had already been seized by authorities, the judge was informed, with two weeks to be served in prison if he failed to pay. The other three had no assets or assets so were directed to make a token amount of £1 per person, with one week in prison the result if the sum was not paid. Judge Spragg said if they were discovered with assets in the future, "such as operating Italy in a sports car or possessing a property", prosecutors could initiate new proceedings to "recover the sum due".