🔗 Share this article Alexander Isak Burglars Ordered to Repay Just £1 Per Person from £1.2m Heists Jela Jovanovic admitted participating in the burglaries Members of an Italy-based family of burglars who stole over £1.2m valued of goods, including from ex- NUFC striker Isak, have been ordered to pay back just £1 per person. Siblings Valentino and Giacomo, their sister Jela and her son Charlie journeyed to the north-east of the UK to burgle multiple homes in April 2024. The foursome were jailed for from a decade or less in 2025. At a proceeds of crime hearing at Newcastle Crown Court, Jela Jovanovic and the brothers Nikolov were instructed to repay £1 each while Charlie Jovanovic must pay over a thousand pounds. Particulars of the Burglaries The court previously heard the group came by boat in the UK on March 27, 2024 and employed a campervan as their "base of operations", which they parked at a service area and Durham rest stops while using a separate vehicle to search for properties and execute thefts. On 31 March they took more than one million pounds of items such as high-end fashion, handbags, jewellery and a CBE medal from a residence on Clayton Road in Jesmond, Newcastle, while the owners were away. Valentino was the sole member of the group to contest burglary but was convicted by the jury The next evening, the gang broke into a house on a gated cul-de-sac in Whitburn, South Tyneside, and took designer handbags, jewellery and footwear valued at over £100,000. Following surveillance of the football club's facility for two days, they then struck at the home of Swedish striker Mr Isak in Darras Hall, Ponteland on 4 April, taking £10,000 in cash, sixty-eight thousand pounds valued of jewelry and the player's £120,000 luxury car. The gang, who were portrayed by prosecutors as experienced touring thieves, used gloves and masks, switched their mobile devices off as they neared their targets and attached a license plate, which had been stolen from a auto shop in a town, on to their car with rubber straps. They were arrested in the Birmingham area on April 13. Burglars took cash and jewelry worth eighty thousand pounds and an car from footballer Isak's home Legal Proceedings and Sentencing Valentino Nikolov had pleaded not guilty to the burglary plot but was found guilty by the court, while his three relations had all entered admissions to the identical accusation. At the proceeds of crime hearing, lawyer the prosecution said each of the defendants had benefited from their crimes 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 sole individual found to have any money that could be "realised", specifically over a thousand pounds which had previously been confiscated by authorities, the court was informed, with 14 days to be spent in prison if he failed to pay. The other three had no money or assets so were ordered to pay a token amount of £1 each, with seven days in incarceration the result if the money was not submitted. The judge Robert Spragg said if they were discovered with property in the future, "for example operating Italy in a sports car or owning a property", the prosecution could initiate further action to "satisfy the amount outstanding".