🔗 Share this article Isak Robbers Instructed to Repay Only £1 Per Person from £1.2 Million Heists Giacomo Nikolov confessed to their involvement in the burglaries Individuals of an Italy-based family of thieves who took over £1.2 million valued of items, including from ex- NUFC forward Alexander Isak, have been ordered to return only £1 each. Siblings Valentino Nikolov and Giacomo Nikolov, their female sibling Jela Jovanovic and her son Charlie Jovanovic journeyed to the northeastern of the UK to burgle multiple homes in spring 2024. The foursome were jailed for between a decade or less in May 2025. At a proceeds of crime proceeding at Newcastle Crown Court, Jela Jovanovic and the Nikolov brothers were ordered to repay £1 each while Charlie Jovanovic must hand over £1,135. Details of the Break-ins The judge was told the group came by ferry in the United Kingdom on March 27, 2024 and employed a campervan as their "headquarters", which they parked at a service area and Durham service rest stops while using another car to search for properties and carry out thefts. On March 31 they stole more than one million pounds of items such as designer clothing, handbags, jewelry and a CBE medal from a house on Clayton Road in Jesmond, while the owners were on holiday. Valentino was the sole member of the group to deny the charge but was found guilty by jurors The following night, the crew broke into a house on a private road in Whitburn, and stole luxury bags, jewellery and footwear valued at over one hundred thousand pounds. Following surveillance of Newcastle United's facility for 48 hours, they then acted at the residence of Swedish striker Alexander Isak in Darras Hall on April 4, taking ten thousand pounds in money, £68,000 worth of jewellery and the player's £120,000 luxury car. The gang, who were portrayed by the prosecution as experienced itinerant burglars, wore hand coverings and face coverings, turned their mobile devices off as they approached their targets and strapped a license plate, which had been taken from a garage in a town, on to their car with rubber straps. They were apprehended in the Birmingham on 13 April. Thieves stole cash and jewelry valued at £80,000 and an Audi from then-Newcastle United striker Isak's property Legal Proceedings and Rulings Valentino had denied the burglary plot but was found guilty by jurors, while his three relations had all submitted admissions to the same charge. At the criminal gains session, lawyer Daniel Cordey said each of the defendants had benefited from their offenses to the value of £1,266,285.93, which was based on what the victims said they had had stolen. But Charlie was the only one deemed to have any money that could be "realised", specifically over a thousand pounds which had already been seized by police, the court heard, with two weeks to be spent in jail if he failed to pay. The other three had no money or property so were directed to make a nominal fee of £1 per person, with one week in prison the consequence if the sum was not submitted. The judge Spragg said if they were discovered with property in the coming years, "such as driving around in Italy in a fast car or possessing a property", prosecutors could seek new proceedings to "satisfy the sum outstanding".