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Judge Begins Witness Hearings in Inquiry into Death of Mango Founder

Probes of a family therapist's influence plus ordered phone extractions seek to determine whether inheritance disputes and tense father‑son messages point to a criminal act.

Overview

  • The inquiry targets the December 14, 2024 Montserrat fall of Mango founder Isak Andic and continues to treat his son Jonathan as an investigated person after his May 19 detention and release on €1 million bail under travel and reporting restrictions.
  • Judge Raquel Nieto has completed an initial round of witness hearings in Martorell that included the family therapist Julia Lüderwaldt, Isak's partner Estefanía Knuth and the two excursionists who found Jonathan at the scene.
  • Lüderwaldt testified for nearly three hours as a witness and declined to invoke professional secrecy, while prosecutors flagged her past pressure on Isak to transfer about €40 million to Jonathan as a line of inquiry.
  • The court has ordered technical copies of the mobile phones of Knuth and the two excursionists to recover route data, calls and messages from December 14, 2024 that investigators say are central to reconstructing the timeline.
  • Investigators are building a circumstantial case that combines messages, therapy records, witness testimony and phone data to test whether strained family relations and planned changes to Isak's will could amount to an economic motive, with further hearings and forensic steps still pending.