Billionaire Mango Founder’s Death Now A Criminal Probe Involving His Own Son: Reports

MADRID, Oct 17 (Reuters) – The household of Mango founder Isak Andic, who died in a fall from a cliff close to Barcelona 10 months in the past, stated it was assured his son Jonathan was harmless after a number of native media reported he was being formally investigated for attainable murder.

The household stated in a press release that it “will proceed to cooperate, because it has achieved till now, with the competent authorities. Moreover, it trusts that this course of shall be concluded as quickly as attainable and that it’ll show Jonathan Andic’s innocence.”

It stated it could present no additional remark at this stage.

La Vanguardia newspaper stated late on Thursday that the decide trying into Andic’s dying started formally investigating Jonathan in September for the murder of his father due to contradictory statements he gave as a witness and that authorities have been looking his cellphone for extra proof.

Throughout the 10-month probe investigators haven’t discovered any conclusive proof linking Jonathan Andic to his father’s dying, La Vanguardia added.

The case remains to be sealed and the decide has not supplied any details about it, the courtroom’s press workplace stated.

Seen as a rival of Zara founder Amancio Ortega, the Istanbul-born businessman moved to Catalonia in northeastern Spain within the Sixties and based Mango in 1984. On the time of his dying he was non-executive chairman of the style model and price $4.5 billion, in response to Forbes.

Jonathan Andic was appointed vice-president of the board of the privately held firm on his father’s dying and president of its holding firm MNG. His sisters Judith and Sarah have been named as vice-presidents of MNG.

Chief Government Officer Toni Ruiz additionally turned chairman of the board after Andic’s dying.

(Reporting by Corina Pons and Charlie Devereux; further reporting by Joan Faus; enhancing by Andrei Khalip and Hugh Lawson)