🔗 Share this article Isak Burglars Ordered to Pay Only £1 Each from £1.2m Heists Charlie Jovanovic admitted participating in the burglaries Members of an Italy-based family of thieves who stole more than £1.2m worth of items, including from former NUFC forward Isak, have been mandated to pay back only £1 each. Brothers Valentino Nikolov and Giacomo, their female sibling Jela and her child Charlie travelled to the north-east of England to raid three houses in spring 2024. The group of four were jailed for from a decade or less in 2025. At a criminal assets proceeding at the court, Jela and the brothers Nikolov were ordered to repay £1 per person while Charlie Jovanovic must pay over a thousand pounds. Particulars of the Burglaries The court previously heard the gang arrived by ferry in the United Kingdom on March 27, 2024 and employed a RV as their "headquarters", which they stationed at a service area and Durham service service stations while utilizing another car to search for targets and execute burglaries. On 31 March they stole more than one million pounds of items including designer clothing, handbags, jewelry and a CBE medal from a residence on a street in Jesmond, while the residents were on holiday. Valentino was the only one of the foursome to contest the charge but was found guilty by jurors The following night, the gang broke into a house on a gated cul-de-sac in Whitburn, South Tyneside, and took designer handbags, valuables and footwear valued at more than one hundred thousand pounds. Following surveillance of the football club's facility for 48 hours, they then struck at the home of Sweden player Alexander Isak in Darras Hall on 4 April, taking ten thousand pounds in money, sixty-eight thousand pounds valued of jewelry and the player's one hundred twenty thousand pound Audi RS6. The group, who were portrayed by prosecutors as experienced touring thieves, wore hand coverings and masks, switched their phones on silent as they neared their objectives and attached a number plate, which had been taken from a auto shop in a town, on to their car with rubber straps. They were arrested in the Birmingham on 13 April. Burglars took money and jewelry valued at eighty thousand pounds and an Audi from footballer Isak's home Court Proceedings and Sentencing Valentino Nikolov had denied conspiracy to burglary but was found guilty by jurors, while his family members had all entered admissions to the same charge. At the proceeds of crime hearing, lawyer the prosecution said every one of the burglars had benefited from their offenses to the amount of £1,266,285.93, which was determined by what the affected parties said they had had stolen. But Charlie Jovanovic was the sole individual found to have any funds that could be "realised", namely over a thousand pounds which had already been seized by authorities, the court was informed, with 14 days to be served in prison if he failed to pay. The remaining members had no money or property so were directed to make a token amount of £1 per person, with one week in prison the consequence if the sum was not submitted. The judge Robert Spragg said if they were discovered with property in the future, "such as driving around in Italy in a fast car or owning a property", the prosecution could initiate further action to "recover the amount due".