🔗 Share this article Isak Robbers Ordered to Pay Just £1 Each from £1.2 Million Thefts Charlie Jovanovic confessed to participating in the crimes Individuals of an Italy-based clan of burglars who took over £1.2 million valued of items, among them from former NUFC forward Isak, have been mandated to return only £1 each. Brothers Valentino and Giacomo, their sister Jela Jovanovic and her child Charlie travelled to the north-east of the UK to raid multiple homes in spring 2024. The foursome were imprisoned for from six and 10 years in May 2025. At a proceeds of crime proceeding at Newcastle Crown Court, Jela and the Nikolov brothers were instructed to repay £1 each while Charlie must hand over over a thousand pounds. Details of the Break-ins The judge was told the group arrived by boat in the United Kingdom on 27 March 2024 and used a campervan as their "base of operations", which they stationed at a service area and Durham service rest stops while using a separate vehicle to scout out properties and carry out burglaries. On March 31 they took more than £1m of goods including high-end fashion, purses, jewelry and a CBE medal from a house on a street in Jesmond, while the owners were away. Valentino Nikolov was the sole member of the foursome to deny burglary but was convicted by jurors The following night, the crew broke into a house on a private road in Whitburn, and took designer handbags, valuables and footwear valued at over one hundred thousand pounds. After scouting out Newcastle United's facility for two days, they then acted at the home of Swedish player Alexander Isak in Darras Hall on April 4, taking ten thousand pounds in money, sixty-eight thousand pounds valued of jewelry and the striker's one hundred twenty thousand pound luxury car. The gang, who were described by prosecutors as professional itinerant thieves, used hand coverings and face coverings, turned their mobile devices off as they approached their objectives and attached a license 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 April 13. Burglars took cash and jewelry worth eighty thousand pounds and an car from then-Newcastle United striker Isak's property Legal Proceedings and Rulings Valentino Nikolov had pleaded not guilty to the burglary plot but was found guilty by jurors, while his three relations had all submitted admissions to the same charge. At the proceeds of crime hearing, lawyer Daniel Cordey said each of the defendants had benefited from their offenses to the value of over £1.2 million, which was determined by what the affected parties said they had had stolen. But Charlie Jovanovic was the only one deemed to have any funds that could be "recovered", specifically £1,135.50 which had previously been confiscated by authorities, the judge heard, with two weeks to be served in jail if he failed to pay. The other three had no assets or property so were ordered to make a nominal fee of £1 per person, with seven days in prison the result if the sum was not submitted. The judge Spragg said if they were discovered with assets in the coming years, "such as driving around in Italy in a fast car or possessing a property", prosecutors could seek new proceedings to "recover the amount due".