{"id":13069,"date":"2025-10-17T09:56:36","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T07:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/mango-fashion-tycoons-family-confident-of-sons-innocence-in-homicide-probe\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:26:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:26:10","slug":"mango-fashion-tycoons-family-confident-of-sons-innocence-in-homicide-probe","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/mango-fashion-tycoons-family-confident-of-sons-innocence-in-homicide-probe\/","title":{"rendered":"Mango fashion tycoon&#8217;s family confident of son&#8217;s innocence in homicide probe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The family said in a statement that it &#8220;will continue to <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">co-operate<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">, as it has done until now, with the competent authorities. Furthermore, it trusts that this process will be concluded as soon as possible and that it will prove Jonathan Andic&#8217;s innocence.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">It said it would provide no further comment at this stage.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">La Vanguardia<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> newspaper said late on Thursday that the Judge looking into Andic&#8217;s death began officially investigating Jonathan in September for the homicide of his father because of contradictory statements he gave as a witness, and that authorities were searching his phone for more evidence.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">During the 10-month probe, investigators haven&#8217;t found any conclusive evidence linking Jonathan Andic to his father&#8217;s death, <\/span><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">La Vanguardia<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Isak Andic died falling more than 100 <\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">metres from<\/span><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"> a cliff while hiking with members of his family in the Montserrat caves near Barcelona. The case is still sealed, and the Judge has not provided any information about it, the court&#8217;s press office said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Seen as a rival of Zara founder Amancio Ortega, the Istanbul-born businessman moved to Catalonia in northeastern Spain in the 1960s and founded Mango in 1984. At the time of his death, he was non-executive Chairperson of the fashion brand and was worth $4.5 billion, according to Forbes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":13070,"template":"default||default","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[44],"class_list":["post-13069","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":" The family of Mango Founder Isak Andic, who died in a fall from a cliff near Barcelona 10 months ago, said it was confident his son Jonathan was innocent after several local media reported he was being officially investigated for possible homicide.|| The family of Mango Founder Isak Andic, who died in a fall from a cliff near Barcelona 10 months ago, said it was confident his son Jonathan was innocent after several local media reported he was being officially investigated for possible homicide.","published_date":null,"news_description":" The family of Mango Founder Isak Andic, who died in a fall from a cliff near Barcelona 10 months ago, said it was confident his son Jonathan was innocent after several local media reported he was being officially investigated for possible homicide.|| The family of Mango Founder Isak Andic, who died in a fall from a cliff near Barcelona 10 months ago, said it was confident his son Jonathan was innocent after several local media reported he was being officially investigated for possible homicide.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/13069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/13069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18364,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/13069\/revisions\/18364"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=13069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}