Alexander Isak Burglars Ordered to Pay Only £1 Each from £1.2m Heists

Members of an Italy-based family of burglars who took more than £1.2m worth of items, including from ex- Newcastle United forward Isak, have been ordered to pay back just £1 per person.

Siblings Valentino and Giacomo Nikolov, their female sibling Jela Jovanovic and her child Charlie Jovanovic travelled to the north-east of England to burgle multiple homes in spring 2024.

The foursome were jailed for from a decade or less in 2025.

At a criminal assets proceeding at Newcastle Crown Court, Jela Jovanovic and the Nikolov brothers were instructed to pay back £1 each while Charlie Jovanovic must pay over a thousand pounds.

Details of the Break-ins

The court previously heard the gang came by ferry in the UK on March 27, 2024 and used a campervan as their "base of operations", which they parked at a service area and Durham service stations while utilizing another car to search for targets and execute burglaries.

On March 31 they stole over one million pounds of items such as designer clothing, purses, jewellery and a honor from a house on a street in Jesmond, Newcastle, while the owners were away.

The following night, the crew broke into a home on a gated cul-de-sac in Whitburn, South Tyneside, and took luxury bags, jewellery and footwear worth more than £100,000.

After scouting out the football club's facility for two days, they then struck at the residence of Swedish striker Alexander Isak in Darras Hall, Ponteland on April 4, stealing £10,000 in cash, sixty-eight thousand pounds valued of jewellery and the player's £120,000 luxury car.

The group, who were described by prosecutors as professional itinerant burglars, used hand coverings and masks, switched their mobile devices off as they neared their objectives and strapped a number plate, which had been taken from a garage in a town, on to their car with elastic bands.

They were arrested in the Birmingham on April 13.

Legal Proceedings and Sentencing

Valentino had denied conspiracy to burglary but was convicted by jurors, while his family members had all entered guilty pleas to the identical accusation.

At the proceeds of crime hearing, lawyer the prosecution said every one of the burglars had profited from their crimes to the amount of £1,266,285.93, which was determined by what the affected parties said they had lost.

But Charlie Jovanovic was the sole individual found to have any money that could be "recovered", specifically £1,135.50 which had previously been confiscated by police, the court was informed, with two weeks to be served in jail if he defaulted.

The remaining members had no assets or property so were directed to pay a token amount of £1 per person, with seven days in incarceration the consequence 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 fast car or owning a property", prosecutors could initiate new proceedings to "recover the sum outstanding".