The three executors appointed by Isak Andic will testify this fall before the judge investigating the case to explain what the last wishes of the founder of Mango were and to what extent they were fulfilled. As people close to and most trusted by the businessman, they will also be able to report to the instructor what the state of his relations was with his eldest son, Jonathan Andic, in the weeks and months prior to Isak's death, on December 14, 2024, on the Montserrat mountain (Barcelona). The first-born remains under investigation for homicide in a case that, in the absence of direct evidence of what happened during the excursion that both took along the Camí de les Feixades, is based on evidence.
In his last will, signed in the summer of 2023, Isak Andic appointed two Mango executives (CEO Toni Ruiz and senior manager Daniel López) and a close friend, José Crehueras, president of Grupo Planeta, as executors. Andic had informed them of its intention to establish a charitable foundation to group and expand the social work it was already carrying out through Mango. But his sudden death at the age of 71 prevented that project from materializing. The executors will have to explain, among other things, what the scope that the businessman intended for this foundation was and, in particular, if it involved (as investigators suspect) stripping the eldest son of a part of the estate.
At stake is clarifying whether, as the Prosecutor's Office and the judge suspect, Jonathan Andic had an economic motive to end his father's life. After his death, he and his sisters, Judith and Sarah, divided the Mango empire equally, as established in that last will. The defense trusts that the witnesses will prove that Isak Andic at no time did I think about “disinheriting” his son, as he even hinted in his statement, who was the partner of the businessman in the last years of his life, Estefanía Knuth.
The executors maintained a scrupulous silence regarding the death of Isak Andic until October 2025, when this newspaper revealed that the investigation pointed to the first-born son as a homicide suspect. In a letter published in the newspaper La Razón, Ruiz, López and Crehueras stated that Isak's will had been “scrupulously followed” and denounced that the “public debate” surrounding his death had caused “greater suffering” to those around him, including his family. The executors came to the defense of Jonathan Andic and asked for respect for the presumption of innocence. “It is especially serious that a person is publicly singled out (...) it is a dangerous violation of fundamental guarantees.”
The letter was supported by a press release, issued by the Superior Court of Justice of Catalonia, in which it was stated that the investigation was not directed against any specific person. The facts later known clash with the content of that note. Because by then, the Mossos, the prosecutor and the judge already considered Jonathan Andic as an object of investigation. On May 19, 2026, the first-born son was arrested and the judge ordered his imprisonment, which he managed to avoid by paying the imposed bail of one million euros.
In addition to the executors, 29 other people are scheduled to testify in various weeks of October and November, whose testimony should help clarify both the circumstances surrounding Isak Andic's death as well as his plans with the foundation and his relations with his son. The judge has agreed to the testimonies both at the request of the prosecutor in the case, Teresa Yoldi, and Jonathan's lawyer, criminal lawyer Cristóbal Martell.
Among those mentioned are six Mossos d'Esquadra agents, two of them mountain specialists, who have repeatedly inspected the Camí de les Feixades area from where Isak Andic fell down a ravine more than a hundred meters high. Two members of the Emergency Medical Service (SEM) who attended to Jonathan Andic after he called 112 at noon will also parade before Martorell judge Raquel Nieto. The statement of three firefighters and the agent who acts as a municipal guard of Collbató, the municipality to which the Montserrat trail where the accident occurred belongs, is also scheduled.
The six witnesses requested by the defense to try to discredit the economic motive have also been agreed by the judge: the lawyer Miquel Roca and his brother Joan Roca, who were commissioned to establish a foundation that, according to the defense, had "the support and commitment of the children; Ariel Sultán, Isak Andic's trusted notary and knowledgeable of all his wills; as well as Raquel Delgado, financial director of Punta Na (the family's patrimonial company). Andic), Germán Castejón, who helped “draw with Isak Andic” the planning of the future management of the assets by Toni Ruiz himself, CEO and owner of 5% of Mango, in addition to being one of the three executors.
