Spanish police stated Tuesday they’ve arrested the eldest son of Mango clothes empire founder Isak Andic over his father’s demise throughout a mountain climbing journey in December 2024.
Jonathan Andic, who was alone along with his 71-year-old father when the retail magnate plunged to his demise within the Montserrat mountains close to Barcelona, was taken into custody, Catalan regional police stated, confirming a report within the every day La Vanguardia newspaper.
Authorities stated on the time of his demise that he fell from a peak close to the Salnitre caves in Collbato, an space marked by steep drops and ravines.
Investigators initially handled the demise as an accident, with early findings suggesting Isak, considered one of Spain’s richest males, might have slipped.
A decide closed the case in January 2025 after discovering no proof of legal wrongdoing.
Nevertheless, investigators with Catalonia’s regional police pressure, the Mossos d’Esquadra, together with prosecutors and the courtroom, reopened the investigation in October 2025 after citing inconsistencies in Jonathan Andic’s testimony, in keeping with the experiences.
Spanish newspaper El País reported on the time that authorities had seized Jonathan Andic’s cellphone shortly after the demise.
It additionally cited testimony from Isak Andic’s associate, skilled golfer Estefania Knuth, describing the at instances tense relations between father and son.
In keeping with the newspaper, the 2 had clashed over the youthful Andic’s position within the firm.
Isak reportedly handed extra operational accountability to Jonathan in 2014, however then resumed tighter management a yr later when Mango skilled enterprise difficulties.
Knuth was additionally reportedly concerned in a monetary dispute with Isak’s three kids over the Mango founder’s will.
Authorities have launched few particulars concerning the investigation, which stays beneath judicial secrecy, Catalonia’s Excessive Court docket stated Tuesday.
Jonathan Andic has denied any accountability for his father’s demise and has maintained that the autumn was unintentional.
He started his skilled profession in Mango in 2005 after finding out audiovisual communication in the USA and enterprise in Spain.
$4.5 billion fortune
Jonathan started to handle the Mango Man line two years later and was the vice-chairman of Mango’s board on the time of his father’s demise.
“In case you are clear about the place you need to go and preserve shifting ahead, you’ll find yourself reaching your targets,” Jonathan Andic, who hardly ever provides interviews, stated in a 2023 Mango promotional video posted on YouTube.
Born in Istanbul, Isak moved along with his household to Barcelona from Turkey as a young person within the late Nineteen Sixties.
He opened his first Mango store on the Paseo de Gracia, Barcelona’s well-known purchasing road, in 1984 with the assistance of his older brother Nahman. It was massively profitable.
Spain had simply emerged from a decades-long dictatorship that ended with the demise of Common Francisco Franco in 1975, and shoppers had been hungry for extra fashionable garments.
His Mango model shortly mushroomed throughout Spain and has turn into one of many world’s main style teams, with about 2,850 shops worldwide.
The corporate affords each skilled and informal types and boasts a presence in additional than 120 markets with greater than 16,400 workers worldwide, in keeping with its web site.
On the time of his demise, Forbes estimated Isak’s fortune at $4.5 billion.
