Individuals of an Italian clan of burglars who stole over £1.2m worth of goods, including from ex- Newcastle United striker Alexander Isak, have been mandated to pay back only £1 per person.
Siblings Valentino and Giacomo, their sister Jela and her son Charlie journeyed to the north-east of the UK to raid three houses in spring 2024.
The group of four were imprisoned for from six and 10 years in May 2025.
At a criminal assets proceeding at Newcastle Crown Court, Jela and the brothers Nikolov were ordered to pay back £1 per person while Charlie Jovanovic must hand over over a thousand pounds.
The court previously heard the gang arrived by boat in the United Kingdom on 27 March 2024 and employed a RV as their "base of operations", which they parked at a service area and Durham service service stations while utilizing a separate vehicle to scout out properties and carry out thefts.
On 31 March they stole over £1m of goods including designer clothing, handbags, jewellery and a CBE medal from a house on Clayton Road in Jesmond, Newcastle, while the owners were on holiday.
The next evening, the crew broke into a home on a gated cul-de-sac in Whitburn, and took designer handbags, jewellery and footwear worth over £100,000.
After scouting out the football club's facility for 48 hours, they then acted at the residence of Swedish striker Mr Isak in Darras Hall on April 4, stealing ten thousand pounds in cash, sixty-eight thousand pounds worth of jewellery and the striker's one hundred twenty thousand pound Audi RS6.
The group, who were described by prosecutors as professional itinerant burglars, wore gloves and masks, turned 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 car with rubber straps.
They were arrested in the Birmingham on April 13.
Valentino 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 criminal gains hearing, prosecutor the prosecution said each of the burglars had profited from their crimes to the value of over £1.2 million, which was determined by what the victims said they had lost.
But Charlie Jovanovic was the sole individual found to have any funds that could be "recovered", specifically over a thousand pounds which had already been seized by authorities, the judge was informed, with two weeks to be served in jail if he defaulted.
The other three had no assets or property so were directed to pay a nominal fee of £1 per person, with seven days in incarceration the consequence if the money was not paid.
Judge Spragg said if they were found with property in the coming years, "such as driving around Italy in a sports car or possessing a property", the prosecution could seek new proceedings to "recover the sum outstanding".
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