Police in Spain have arrested the son of Isak Andic, the billionaire founder of the Spanish fashion brand Mango, for allegedly having played a job in his death.
Mr Andic, 71, was mountain climbing together with his son within the mountains near Barcelona when he fell about 500 feet down a cliff and died in December 2024.
The son, Jonathan Andic, 45, was the one witness. Police opened an investigation but closed it a number of weeks later.
It was reopened in March 2025, and in October, police confirmed the death was being investigated as a possible homicide.
Inconsistencies in Jonathan’s statements prompted a judicial review, in keeping with La Vanguardia newspaper.
The family said in October that it was confident that Jonathan was innocent and that it might ‘proceed to cooperate’ with the authorities.
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Jonathan was taken to court facilities in Martorell, a city in eastern Spain, where the case is being investigated, said a spokesperson for the Catalan regional police, Mossos d’Esquadra.
The case is subject to a nondisclosure order, he added.
Jonathan is the eldest of Isak Andic’s three children and one in every of his father’s heirs.
He’s the vice chairman of the board at Mango, one in every of Spain’s biggest retailers.
Andic, who was born in Istanbul in 1953, emigrated to Catalonia together with his relatives within the late Nineteen Sixties.
The businessman began selling T-shirts to fellow high school students. He then progressed to running a wholesale business and selling 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 the non-executive chairman of the style brand and was value £3.35bn, in keeping with Forbes.
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 the complete organisation.’
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