On September 9, Jonathan Andic left Mango’s headquarters in his car, in an industrial area of Palau-solít Plegamans, an industrial town less than 30 kilometers from the center of Barcelona. A Mossos d’Esquadra police car blocked his path and one of the officers approached him, identified himself as a police officer and asked him to hand over his cell phone. Jonathan accepted the request without question, even though he was under no obligation to do so. A few days later, and indirectly, he learned that for the Mossos he was no longer a simple witness: they were investigating him as a suspect of having killed his father, Isak Andic, as part of the judicial proceedings opened to clarify the circumstances of his death. The Mango founder died on December 14, 2024, after falling from a height of approximately 100 meters while hiking with his eldest son along a trail in the Montserrat mountain. He was 71 years old and the richest man in Catalonia.
The investigators emptied the contents of the cell phone and have since analyzed it in search of clues: messages, photographs or conversations that could be used to obtain some solid clues about what happened on the road to the Montserrat monastery, since there are no direct witnesses (other than Jonathan himself) to the accident. According to the sources in the case, they are also investigating other company mobile devices, looking for older messages about the relationship with his father.
The telephone is a central element of investigations for other reasons too. In January 2025, a few weeks after his father’s death, Jonathan sent an email to Mango requesting a new iPhone-branded company terminal. This circumstance aroused the suspicions of the investigators, who asked the company’s technicians for explanations on the date of acquisition, delivery and activation of the terminal, as learned by this newspaper.
The manager, one of the three heirs of the Mango empire together with his sisters Judith and Sarah, had requested the change to have the latest iPhone model, without the request having anything to do with the facts, sources in the area indicate. But Jonathan, for some reason, didn’t immediately pick up the new cell phone. He did it two months later, after losing his cell phone.
According to the technicians’ response (both oral and written), there is technical evidence that the cell phone was activated on March 26. A “full migration” of the content was performed and there was no “reset” or “wipe” of the device, according to sources in the case. The Mossos are trying to verify whether, in the months in which he had his old cell phone with him, Jonathan Andic deleted part of the content (photographs, conversations) and whether or not that material is relevant to the investigations.
Research accelerates
As the one-year anniversary of Isak Andic’s death approaches, the investigation into Mossos is at its peak. In recent weeks, agents have collected statements from relevant people in Jonathan’s personal and work environment, including his sisters, his uncle and co-founder of Mango, and even his psychotherapist. With the exception of the latter (who took advantage of professional secrecy), all the witnesses interviewed stood in Jonathan’s defense and endorsed the good relationship between father and son, especially in recent times.
One of the most relevant testimonies, according to judicial sources, was that of Toni Ruiz, president of Mango since the founder’s death. Ruiz is one of the people who knows both father and son most closely and who, therefore, can speak with most authority about their relationship. The first director of Mango is also a friend, partner and executor of Isak Andic.
The investigation into the entrepreneur’s death is directed by the investigative court 5 of Martorell (Barcelona) and remains under summary secrecy. Without direct evidence of what happened, the Mossos have a series of clues that lead them to think of a murder. However, investigators do not rule out the possibility that it was an accidental death, the result of a slip. In the coming weeks they will present their provisional conclusions to the judge, so that he can decide whether to dismiss the proceedings (for lack of evidence or for having concluded that it was an accident), or whether to proceed to call Jonathan Andic to be formally declared under investigation and even order his arrest.
