Prosecutors oppose lifting precautionary measures against Jonathan Andic due to flight risk
Teresa Yoldi maintains that the son of Mango's founder, investigated for his father's death, presents a high danger of escape due to his enormous wealth.
Prosecutors oppose lifting precautionary measures against Jonathan Andic due to flight risk
The representative of the Public Prosecutor's Office, Teresa Yoldi, has rejected a request by Jonathan Andic's defence to lift the restrictions placed on the businessman, who is being investigated for the death of Isak Andic, creator of the Mango fashion brand, which occurred on 14 December 2024 in Montserrat.
In a 30-page document submitted on 4 June, Yoldi reiterates that the defendant faces a high danger of escape due to his enormous wealth. Investigating magistrate Raquel Nieto had previously agreed that Andic should be released conditionally after paying a guarantee of one million euros, surrendering his travel documents, and presenting himself every seven days before a court.
According to La Vanguardia, the fiscal magistrate rebuts one by one the seven indicators that the judge used as grounds for the businessman's provisional imprisonment. Yoldi, who has been overseeing the investigation for eighteen months, bases her position on reports from the Mossos d'Esquadra, the study of the geographical location of both father and son, and the material extracted from Isak Andic's telephone, analysed carefully since the start of the inquiries.
Additionally, the prosecutor highlights the telephone communications that Jonathan made at the moment of the incident, together with the graphic documentation produced by forensic police technicians at the scene of death, a stretch of the Montserrat path that leads to the Coves del Salnitre.
Yoldi argues that all of this evidence contradicts the alleged harmony between the two family members that the defendant claimed in his three court appearances—two before officers and one before the judge presiding over the court on the day of his arrest. In the prosecutor's view, the conversations gathered in police proceedings do not support this account. Rather, she contends that the account of how the father's fall occurred contradicts the reconstruction that emerges from the objective data collected by investigators.
The prosecutor considers that the one-million-euro guarantee, combined with the confiscation of the passport and the requirement to appear weekly before the judicial authority, constitute "proportionate" measures that ensure the defendant's presence throughout the proceedings, given that he could face sentences of considerable magnitude.
Source: La Vanguardia