Police investigating the death of Mango’s billionaire founder have reportedly turned to his son as a possible suspect.
Isak Andic, 71, who built the style empire from the bottom up, died on December 14 last 12 months after falling greater than 300ft.
He had been mountaineering together with his eldest son, Jonathan, within the Montserrat mountains near Barcelona.
Detectives initially ruled his death accidental but at the moment are treating it as a possible homicide, in keeping with Spanish media.
Inconsistencies in Jonathan’s statements have prompted a judicial review, in keeping with La Vanguardia newspaper.
The family has said it’s confident that Jonathan was innocent and that it might ‘proceed to cooperate’ with the authorities.
Police are investigating Jonathan Andic, 44, following what police said were contradictory accounts of events, according La Vanguardia.
Nonetheless, the police have found no direct or definitive evidence that explains what happened on the day Isak died, the paper reported.
The family said in a press release yesterday that it ‘will proceed to cooperate, because it has done until now, with the competent authorities’.
‘Moreover, it trusts that this process can be concluded as soon as possible and that it’s going to prove Jonathan Andic’s innocence.’
Andic, who was born in Istanbul in 1953, emigrated to Catalonia together with his relatives within the late Sixties.
The businessman began selling T-shirts to fellow highschool students. He then progressed to running a wholesale business and sold clothes in street markets before opening his first Mango store in 1984.
It became one in every of Europe’s foremost fashion empires, spread across 120 countries with some 2,800 stores and over 16,000 staff.
On the time of his death Isak Andic was non-executive chairman of the style brand and price £3.35bn, in keeping with Forbes
Jonathan is listed because the vice-chairman of the board on the Mango Fashion Group’s website.
In a press release following his death, Mango CEO Tony Ruiz said Isak had ‘dedicated his life to Mango’.
He added: ‘His legacy reflects the achievements of a business project marked by success, and likewise by his human quality, his proximity and the care and affection that he at all times had and in any respect times conveyed to your complete organisation.’
Mango was approached for comment.
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