🔗 Share this article Isak Robbers Instructed to Repay Only £1 Per Person from £1.2m Thefts Charlie Jovanovic confessed to their involvement in the burglaries Members of an Italian clan of thieves who stole over £1.2 million valued of goods, including from former Newcastle United striker Alexander Isak, have been ordered to return only £1 per person. Brothers Valentino and Giacomo, their female sibling Jela Jovanovic and her son Charlie journeyed to the northeastern of the UK to raid three houses in April 2024. The group of four were imprisoned for between six and 10 years in 2025. At a proceeds of crime proceeding at Newcastle Crown Court, Jela and the Nikolov brothers were instructed to repay £1 per person while Charlie Jovanovic must hand over £1,135. Particulars of the Burglaries The court previously heard the gang came by boat in the United Kingdom on March 27, 2024 and employed a RV as their "base of operations", which they parked at a service area and Durham service service stations while using a separate vehicle to scout out properties and carry out burglaries. On March 31 they took more than £1m of goods including designer clothing, purses, jewelry and a honor from a residence on a street in Jesmond, Newcastle, while the owners were on holiday. Valentino Nikolov was the only one of the foursome to contest the charge but was found guilty by jurors The next evening, the crew entered a house on a private road in Whitburn, South Tyneside, and took designer handbags, valuables and shoes valued at over one hundred thousand pounds. After scouting out the football club's facility for two days, they then struck at the residence of Sweden striker Alexander Isak in Darras Hall on 4 April, taking £10,000 in cash, sixty-eight thousand pounds valued of jewellery and the player's £120,000 luxury car. The gang, who were described by prosecutors as experienced itinerant burglars, used gloves and masks, turned their mobile devices off as they approached their targets and strapped a license plate, which had been stolen from a garage in Chester-le-Street, on to their vehicle with rubber straps. They were arrested in the Birmingham on 13 April. Burglars took money and jewelry worth eighty thousand pounds and an Audi from then-Newcastle United striker Alexander Isak's property Legal Hearings and Rulings Valentino Nikolov had denied conspiracy to burglary but was found guilty by the court, while his three relations had all submitted guilty pleas to the identical accusation. At the criminal gains hearing, prosecutor the prosecution said every one of the burglars had benefited from their offenses to the amount of £1,266,285.93, which was based on 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 already been seized by authorities, the court heard, with two weeks to be served in jail if he failed to pay. The other three had no assets or assets so were ordered to pay a nominal fee of £1 each, with one week in incarceration the result if the sum was not paid. The judge Spragg said if they were found with property in the future, "such as operating Italy in a sports car or possessing a property", the prosecution could seek new proceedings to "satisfy the sum outstanding".