The eldest son of Spanish clothing empire Mango's founder Isak Andic was released on Tuesday after posting one million euros (US$1.16 million)' bail following his arrest in a murder inquiry into his father's 2024 death.
After being detained by police on Tuesday morning and taken to court in handcuffs for questioning, Jonathan Andic left the courthouse in Martorell in northeastern Spain, where he was accompanied by his lawyers, according to an AFP reporter at the scene.He did not answer questions from journalists.The 45-year-old was ordered to surrender his passport, appear weekly before the court, and was banned from leaving the country, the court said in a statement, adding the case was being "investigated as a charge of homicide".According to the judge's order seen Tuesday by AFP, there was "sufficient evidence" to suspect Jonathan killed his father in a premeditated manner. It mentioned his alleged "obsession with money", a strained relationship and contradictions in his account of events.Jonathan was alone with his 71-year-old billionaire father when the clothing empire founder plunged to his death in the Montserrat mountains near Barcelona on Dec. 14, 2024.According to the forensic report, as cited in Tuesday's order, the fall was "as if he had gone down a slide, feet first".At the time of Isak's death, authorities said he had fallen from a height near the Salnitre caves in Collbato, an area marked by steep drops and ravines.Investigators initially treated the death as an accident, with early findings suggesting Isak, one of Spain's richest men, may have slipped.A judge closed the case in January 2025 after finding no evidence of criminal wrongdoing.However, investigators with Catalonia's regional police force, the Mossos d'Esquadra, along with prosecutors reopened the investigation in October 2025 after citing inconsistencies in Jonathan's testimony, according to media reports.
