The Mossos d'Esquadra arrested Jonathan Andic this Tuesday, the eldest son of the founder of Mango, as a person of interest in the death of his father, Isak Andic, and he was taken to the courts in Martorell (Barcelona) to appear before the judge overseeing the case.
Isak Andic passed away on December 14, 2024, after falling from a height of approximately 150 meters during an excursion to the Salnitre caves in Collbató, located in the Montserrat massif. Jonathan was the only person present with his father at the time of the fall and was the one who alerted the emergency services.
The arrest took place at the home of Jonathan Andic in Barcelona, carried out by agents from the Criminal Investigation Division (DIC) of the Egara police station, following over a year of investigations conducted under secrecy.
Shortly before one in the afternoon, the detainee arrived handcuffed and on foot at the Martorell courts, accompanied by three uniformed officers and two investigative agents, to appear before the judge of Court of Instruction Number Five.
His lawyer, Cristóbal Martell, also attended the court, along with the prosecutor of the case and the investigators from the Mossos, who arrived carrying a box of documents containing the report.
Initially, the case was handled as an accident, and the judge provisionally filed the case in January 2025. However, she reopened it two months later to include additional police reports, including statements from family members and individuals close to both the victim and the suspect.
After the reopening, the Mossos focused their investigations on Jonathan Andic. In September 2025, they requested his mobile phone to analyze it, and since then, the Catalan police have been working to recover messages that had been deleted months earlier, in search of clues that could shed light on the circumstances of the death.
The investigators also looked into a request for a corporate phone change that Jonathan reportedly made to Mango in January 2025, just weeks after his father's death, which was activated on March 26 of that year.
In October 2025, the investigation began to openly consider the hypothesis of homicide, and Jonathan Andic changed his status from witness to that of a suspect.
Isak Andic, born in Istanbul in 1953 into a Sephardic Jewish family, emigrated to Catalonia at the age of 14 and founded Mango in 1984, opening his first store on Paseo de Gracia in Barcelona. At the time of his death, the company had over 2,800 points of sale in more than 120 markets and reported revenues exceeding 3.3 billion euros, while his personal fortune was estimated at 4.5 billion euros.
After the death of his father, Jonathan Andic assumed the presidency of Mango MNG Holding and Punta Na Holding in January 2025, the companies that control the majority ownership of the group. Isak Andic's inheritance was formalized in July 2025 and divided equally among his three children.
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