Alexander Isak Robbers Instructed to Pay Just £1 Each from £1.2 Million Thefts

Individuals of an Italian family of thieves who took over £1.2m valued of items, among them from ex- Newcastle United forward Alexander Isak, have been ordered to return only £1 each.

Siblings Valentino and Giacomo, 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 jailed for from a decade or less in 2025.

At a criminal assets proceeding at the court, Jela Jovanovic and the brothers Nikolov were ordered to repay £1 each while Charlie must hand over over a thousand pounds.

Particulars of the Break-ins

The court previously heard the gang arrived by ferry in the United Kingdom on 27 March 2024 and used a campervan as their "base of operations", which they parked at a service area and Durham service service stations while using another car to scout out targets and execute thefts.

On 31 March they took more than one million pounds of items including high-end fashion, purses, jewellery and a honor from a house on Clayton Road in Jesmond, while the residents were on holiday.

The following night, the crew broke into a house on a gated cul-de-sac in Whitburn, and took designer handbags, jewellery and footwear worth more than £100,000.

After scouting out the football club's facility for 48 hours, they then acted at the home of Swedish player Alexander Isak in Darras Hall, Ponteland on 4 April, taking ten thousand pounds in money, sixty-eight thousand pounds worth of jewelry and the striker's one hundred twenty thousand pound luxury car.

The gang, who were portrayed by prosecutors as experienced touring thieves, wore hand coverings and masks, turned their mobile devices on silent as they neared their objectives and strapped a license plate, which had been stolen from a auto shop in a town, on to their vehicle with rubber straps.

They were apprehended in the Birmingham on April 13.

Court Proceedings and Rulings

Valentino Nikolov had denied conspiracy to burglary but was found guilty by the court, while his family members had all submitted guilty pleas to the identical accusation.

At the criminal gains session, lawyer Daniel Cordey said each of the defendants 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 was the sole individual deemed to have any money that could be "realised", namely over a thousand pounds which had already been seized by police, the judge heard, with two weeks to be spent in prison if he failed to pay.

The other three had no money or assets so were ordered to pay a nominal fee of £1 per person, with one week in prison the result if the sum was not paid.

Judge Robert Spragg said if they were discovered with assets in the coming years, "such as driving around in Italy in a sports car or owning a home", prosecutors could initiate further action to "satisfy the sum due".