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Isak Robbers Ordered to Repay Only £1 Each from £1.2m Heists
Members of an Italian family of burglars who took more than £1.2 million worth of items, including from former Newcastle United striker Alexander Isak, have been mandated to return only £1 per person.
Brothers Valentino and Giacomo, their sister Jela Jovanovic and her child Charlie journeyed to the north-east of the UK to burgle three houses in spring 2024.
The group of four were imprisoned for from a decade or less in May 2025.
At a criminal assets hearing at Newcastle Crown Court, Jela Jovanovic and the brothers Nikolov were instructed to pay back £1 per person while Charlie must hand over over a thousand pounds.
Particulars of the Burglaries
The court was told the group came by ferry in the United Kingdom on March 27, 2024 and employed a RV as their "base of operations", which they parked at a service area and Durham service stations while using a separate vehicle to scout out targets and execute burglaries.
On March 31 they stole over £1m of goods including designer clothing, purses, jewelry and a honor from a house on Clayton Road in Jesmond, Newcastle, while the owners were on holiday.
The following night, the crew entered a house on a private road in Whitburn, South Tyneside, and took luxury bags, jewellery and shoes valued at over one hundred thousand pounds.
Following surveillance of the football club's training ground for 48 hours, they then struck at the residence of Sweden striker Alexander Isak in Darras Hall on April 4, taking £10,000 in cash, £68,000 worth of jewellery and the striker's £120,000 luxury car.
The gang, who were described by the prosecution as experienced touring burglars, used hand coverings and masks, turned their phones on silent as they approached their objectives and attached a license 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.
Legal Hearings and Rulings
Valentino Nikolov had denied conspiracy to burglary but was convicted by jurors, while his three relations had all entered guilty pleas to the same charge.
At the proceeds of crime hearing, lawyer Daniel Cordey said every one of the burglars had profited 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 Jovanovic was the only one found to have any funds that could be "recovered", namely over a thousand pounds which had already been seized by authorities, the court was informed, with 14 days to be spent in prison if he failed to pay.
The other three had no money or assets so were ordered to make a token amount 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 assets in the coming years, "for example driving around in Italy in a sports car or owning a home", prosecutors could initiate new proceedings to "recover the sum outstanding".
Kenneth Bell
A tech strategist and writer passionate about digital transformation and emerging technologies.
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