🔗 Share this article Alexander Isak Robbers Ordered to Repay Only £1 Per Person from £1.2m Heists Giacomo Nikolov confessed to their involvement in the burglaries Members of an Italy-based clan of thieves who took more than £1.2m worth of goods, among them from ex- NUFC striker Alexander Isak, have been ordered to return just £1 per person. Siblings Valentino Nikolov and Giacomo Nikolov, their female sibling Jela and her child Charlie Jovanovic journeyed to the northeastern of England to burgle multiple homes in April 2024. The group of four were jailed for from a decade or less in May 2025. At a criminal assets proceeding at the court, Jela and the brothers Nikolov were instructed to pay back £1 each while Charlie Jovanovic must pay over a thousand pounds. Particulars of the Break-ins The court was told the group arrived by boat in the United Kingdom on 27 March 2024 and employed a campervan as their "base of operations", which they stationed at Scotch Corner and Durham service service stations while utilizing another car to scout out targets and carry out thefts. On March 31 they stole more than £1m of items including high-end fashion, handbags, jewellery and a honor from a residence on a street in Jesmond, Newcastle, while the owners were away. Valentino Nikolov was the sole member of the group to deny burglary but was convicted by the jury The following night, the crew entered a house on a gated cul-de-sac in Whitburn, South Tyneside, and stole designer handbags, jewellery and shoes worth more than £100,000. Following surveillance of the football club's training ground for two days, they then acted at the home of Swedish player Alexander Isak in Darras Hall on April 4, taking £10,000 in cash, sixty-eight thousand pounds worth of jewellery and the player's one hundred twenty thousand pound luxury car. The group, who were portrayed by the prosecution as professional itinerant burglars, wore gloves and masks, switched their mobile devices off as they approached their targets and strapped a number plate, which had been taken from a auto shop in Chester-le-Street, on to their vehicle with rubber straps. They were arrested in the Birmingham area on April 13. Thieves took money and jewellery valued at eighty thousand pounds and an Audi from then-Newcastle United striker Isak's home Court Hearings and Sentencing Valentino Nikolov had pleaded not guilty to conspiracy to burglary but was convicted by the court, while his family members had all entered guilty pleas to the identical accusation. At the criminal gains session, lawyer the prosecution said every one of the defendants had benefited from their crimes to the amount of over £1.2 million, which was determined by what the affected parties said they had had stolen. But Charlie was the only one deemed to have any funds that could be "realised", specifically over a thousand pounds which had already been seized by authorities, the court was informed, with 14 days to be served in jail if he failed to pay. The remaining members had no money or property so were directed to make a token amount of £1 each, with one week in incarceration the consequence if the sum was not paid. Judge Robert Spragg said if they were found with assets in the future, "such as driving around in Italy in a fast car or owning a property", the prosecution could initiate further action to "satisfy the sum due".