🔗 Share this article Isak Burglars Ordered to Repay Only £1 Per Person from £1.2m Heists Giacomo Nikolov confessed to their involvement in the crimes Individuals of an Italian family of thieves who took over £1.2 million worth of items, including from ex- NUFC striker Isak, have been mandated to return only £1 per person. Siblings Valentino and Giacomo, their sister Jela Jovanovic and her child Charlie journeyed to the north-east of England to burgle three houses in spring 2024. The group of four were imprisoned for from a decade or less in May 2025. At a proceeds of crime hearing at the court, Jela and the brothers Nikolov were ordered to pay back £1 each while Charlie must hand over £1,135. Details of the Burglaries The judge previously heard the gang came by boat in the UK on 27 March 2024 and used a campervan as their "headquarters", which they stationed at a service area and Durham service stations while utilizing another car to search for targets and execute thefts. On 31 March they took more than one million pounds of goods including high-end fashion, purses, jewellery and a CBE medal from a residence on Clayton Road in Jesmond, while the residents were on holiday. Valentino was the sole member of the foursome to deny the charge but was found guilty by the jury The following night, the gang entered a home on a private road in Whitburn, and took luxury bags, jewellery and shoes valued at over £100,000. After scouting out the football club's facility for two days, they then struck at the residence of Swedish player Alexander Isak in Darras Hall, Ponteland on April 4, stealing ten thousand pounds in money, £68,000 worth of jewellery and the striker's £120,000 luxury car. The gang, who were portrayed by prosecutors as experienced itinerant burglars, wore hand coverings and face coverings, turned their phones off as they approached their targets and attached a number plate, which had been stolen from a auto shop in a town, on to their vehicle with rubber straps. They were arrested in the Birmingham area on 13 April. Thieves stole cash and jewellery worth eighty thousand pounds and an car from footballer Alexander Isak's home Court Hearings and Rulings Valentino Nikolov had denied the burglary plot but was convicted by jurors, while his three relations had all submitted admissions to the same charge. At the proceeds of crime session, lawyer Daniel Cordey said each of the defendants had profited from their offenses to the amount of £1,266,285.93, which was determined by what the victims said they had lost. But Charlie Jovanovic was the sole individual deemed to have any funds that could be "realised", specifically £1,135.50 which had already been seized by authorities, the judge heard, with two weeks to be served in jail if he defaulted. The other three had no money or property so were directed to make a token amount of £1 per person, with one week in incarceration the consequence if the sum was not submitted. Judge Robert Spragg said if they were found with assets in the future, "for example operating in Italy in a fast car or owning a home", prosecutors could initiate further action to "satisfy the amount due".