🔗 Share this article Alexander Isak Burglars Instructed to Pay Only £1 Each from £1.2 Million Thefts Giacomo Nikolov confessed to participating in the crimes Members of an Italy-based clan of burglars who stole over £1.2 million worth of items, including from former NUFC forward Alexander Isak, have been mandated to pay back just £1 per person. Siblings Valentino and Giacomo Nikolov, their female sibling Jela Jovanovic and her child Charlie Jovanovic journeyed to the northeastern of the UK to raid multiple homes in April 2024. The group of four were imprisoned for from six and 10 years in 2025. At a proceeds of crime hearing at the court, Jela and the Nikolov brothers were instructed to pay back £1 per person while Charlie Jovanovic must hand over £1,135. Details of the Burglaries The judge was told the gang came by boat in the UK on March 27, 2024 and used a campervan as their "base of operations", which they stationed at Scotch Corner and Durham rest stops while utilizing a separate vehicle to search for targets and execute burglaries. On 31 March they stole over £1m of goods including high-end fashion, purses, jewelry and a honor from a house on Clayton Road in Jesmond, while the owners were away. Valentino Nikolov was the sole member of the group to deny the charge but was convicted by the jury The following night, the crew 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 Newcastle United's training ground for two days, they then acted at the residence of Sweden player Alexander Isak in Darras Hall, Ponteland on 4 April, stealing ten thousand pounds in money, £68,000 valued of jewellery and the player's £120,000 Audi RS6. The gang, who were portrayed by the prosecution as experienced touring burglars, wore hand coverings and face coverings, switched their phones on silent as they neared their targets and attached a number plate, which had been stolen from a garage in Chester-le-Street, on to their vehicle with elastic bands. They were arrested in the Birmingham on 13 April. Burglars stole money and jewelry valued at eighty thousand pounds and an Audi from footballer Alexander Isak's home Court Hearings and Rulings Valentino Nikolov had pleaded not guilty to the burglary plot but was convicted by the court, while his three relations had all entered guilty pleas to the identical accusation. At the proceeds of crime session, prosecutor the prosecution said each of the defendants had profited from their crimes to the amount of over £1.2 million, which was determined by what the affected parties said they had lost. But Charlie was the sole individual deemed to have any money that could be "realised", specifically over a thousand pounds which had previously been confiscated by police, the judge was informed, with two weeks to be served in jail if he defaulted. The other three had no assets or assets so were ordered to pay a nominal fee of £1 each, with one week in incarceration the result if the money was not submitted. The judge Spragg said if they were discovered with property in the future, "for example operating Italy in a sports car or owning a home", the prosecution could seek new proceedings to "satisfy the amount due".