{"text":[[{"start":6.85,"text":"It was shortly after noon on a mild winter day when Isak Andic, the founder of Mango, stopped to photograph the view from a jagged peak outside Barcelona, his son later told police. Jonathan Andic, the billionaire’s eldest child, was the only person hiking with him that day. He claims he walked ahead, ending up a few metres away, out of sight of his father. "}],[{"start":30.450000000000003,"text":"Jonathan then “heard the sound of stones falling”. He swivelled around and “saw a body tumbling through the brush”. Isak, the man behind a global apparel chain, was plunging to his death. His son “heard a loud impact and a groan of pain from his father”."}],[{"start":47.300000000000004,"text":"That was the account Jonathan provided to police on December 14 2024, the day a hike on Montserrat, a mountain that is home to a monastery, turned deadly for one of fashion’s richest men."}],[{"start":59.2,"text":"The death of Isak Andic, who was born in Turkey and moved to Spain in the 1970s, was initially reported as an accident. But a judge’s bombshell decision to lift a secrecy order this week revealed that Jonathan is now a suspect in a homicide investigation."}],[{"start":76.15,"text":"It also cast a spotlight on Jonathan’s troubled time running Mango — a stint that Isak brought to an end — and raised doubts over the future of the family fortune, which was $4.5bn at the time of Isak’s death and remains one of the largest in Catalonia, Mango’s home region."}],[{"start":93.65,"text":"Images of Jonathan arriving handcuffed at a court building stunned Barcelona, where the tight-knit business elite whirrs with rivalry and intrigue. The Andic family have defended Jonathan’s innocence, stating that there is no legitimate evidence against him and none will be found. "}],[{"start":112,"text":"But Judge Raquel Nieto Galván’s order setting out the evidence pointing to possible homicide also lifted the lid on a Shakespearean story of father-son rancour over money. Their relationship was poisoned, according to Galván, by Jonathan’s lossmaking run as Mango’s executive vice-chair, his lust for an inheritance, and his “emotional manipulation” of Isak."}],[{"start":134.85,"text":"The two men were “very different”, said one person who was interviewed by both for a job at Mango several years ago. “Isak was very nice, very friendly,” the person said. “Jonathan was more haughty, more arrogant, quite cocky.”"}],[{"start":148.6,"text":"On Isak’s death, Jonathan and his two sisters inherited 95 per cent of Mango, with the remaining 5 per cent in the hands of chief executive Toni Ruiz."}],[{"start":158.79999999999998,"text":"One well-connected figure in Barcelona said Jonathan was known for his “flamboyant lifestyle”. His wife, an influencer who goes by the name Paula Nata, fills Instagram with pictures of Balearic beaches, yacht trips and herself in high-end outfits. Six weeks after Isak’s death, the celebrity magazine Hola! reported that the two had postponed their wedding party due to the “terrible blow”. "}],[{"start":184.45,"text":"Jonathan’s lawyer, Cristóbal Martell, has decried the order. “The homicide theory is unfounded,” he stated. “But above all, it is painful. It stigmatises an innocent man.” Jonathan was released on the day of his detention on €1mn bail. "}],[{"start":201.1,"text":"But the judge pointed to “contradictions” in his account of what happened on the fatal hike. Jonathan told police at first that his father had stopped to take photos, but when Isak’s body was recovered his phone was in his front trouser pocket — and it contained no images taken in the last place he stood. "}],[{"start":219.1,"text":"Jonathan said he had hiked along the same route roughly two weeks earlier, but vehicle-tracking data showed he had driven to the area three times in the previous week. His own phone also vanished in what the judge called “strange circumstances”. His secretary said it was stolen during a three-day trip to Ecuador in March 2025, which Galván noted coincided with media reports that investigators had reopened a case into Isak’s death."}],[{"start":245.85,"text":"In 1981, the year Jonathan was born, his father was running a business that began selling blouses imported from Turkey. It started its international expansion in 1992. By the late 1990s Mango had stores in more than 30 countries. Jonathan got his first job in the business in 2005 and became head of menswear division Mango Man in 2007. By 2014 he was one of two executive vice-chairs and Isak, then the chair, said Jonathan was “acting as” chief executive."}],[{"start":279.95,"text":"Then things went off the rails. The company embarked on an ambitious plan to renovate old stores, open big new ones and launch an array of fresh product lines. Ruiz, then chief financial officer, told the FT four years ago: “The collection lost its overall coherence and, in the end, we lost some of the DNA that had defined us.” Mango accumulated more than €600mn of debt in 2016 and plunged into the red, losing more than €100mn from 2016-18. "}],[{"start":311.2,"text":"The judge said witnesses confirmed that Jonathan descended into a “professional, personal and family crisis”. Isak retook the reins of the business. He appointed Ruiz as general manager in 2018, the business returned to profit in 2019, and Ruiz was promoted to CEO in 2020."}],[{"start":329.65,"text":"Jonathan was sent back to lead Mango Man and kept his seat on the board. But he remained at odds with his father, Galván wrote. Jonathan had an “obsession” with money and wanted to secure an early inheritance. In private messages he expressed “feelings of hatred, resentment and thoughts of death, and blamed his father for his situation”."}],[{"start":349.4,"text":"After Jonathan learnt in mid-2024 that Isak intended to put part of his fortune into a philanthropic foundation, his attitude flipped, according to Galván. The priority became defusing tensions. Thus arose the plan for a hike. “The father, in an attempt to reconcile with his son, agreed to the outing his son proposed,” the judge wrote, “so the two of them could talk alone.”"}],[{"start":379.95,"text":""}]],"url":"https://audio.ftcn.net.cn/album/a_1779503155_6283.mp3"}