The judge of Martorell Raquel Tierno Galván listed in the detention order of Jonathan Andic a “pile of evidence” that made him suspicious of the death of his father, Isak Andic, on December 14, 2024. Among this circumstantial evidence, the magistrate cited the disappearance “under strange circumstances” of the iPhone 14 that the accused was carrying the day his father fell into the void in Montserrat. The phone change took place on March 26, after Jonathan warned via a WhatsApp message from his computer to his secretary at Mango that his phone had been stolen. He requested a new one, an iPhone 16 Pro, which he activated as soon as he landed.
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The movements of the old and new device were meticulously analyzed by the Mossos d’Esquadra. And when they learned of that lightning trip to Quito, for work, and the alleged theft, they tried to confirm the data. In Ecuador, there is no record of any theft or loss report. But what did surprise the police, who highlight it in their report, is that this device “was never activated in Ecuador,” according to La Vanguardia from sources familiar with the investigation. In fact, the same sources do not rule out that Jonathan Andic took advantage of that work trip to get rid of the device.
The Mossos from the Martorell investigation unit made, through judicial authorization, requests to all the telephone companies operating in Quito. On Tuesday, when Jonathan Andic was arrested and the report had already been delivered to the magistrate with a copy to prosecutor Teresa Yoldi, they were still waiting for the response from one company. The rest confirmed in writing to the police that there was no record of the activation of that line in the country.
For the investigators, the “suspicious” silence of that device during the trip to Ecuador is “one more indication.” That device disappeared and not just anywhere, but in Ecuador. The Mossos maintain that this phone never traveled outside Spain and that it was deliberately destroyed beforehand to prevent it from falling into the hands of the investigators.
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The new phone he started using after the trip was the one he handed over to the Mossos on September 9 when they requested it after showing a court order. As on all previous occasions, Jonathan Andic was cooperative and provided the police with all the access codes to his device.
Aware of the importance of the phones, last Tuesday, after being informed at his doorstep that he was under arrest for the homicide of his father, the policeman asked him if he could hand over the phone. Jonathan Andic called one of his lawyers, who told him absolutely not, that unless they showed a court order to enter the home, he should leave the device in the apartment.
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Jonathan Andic spoke about these phone movements in the brief statement he made on Tuesday at the Martorell court after his arrest. He only answered the questions of his lawyer, Cristóbal Martell, who asked him about the phone changes. The accused stated that it was a “common” practice among the top executives of the Mango company to periodically replace the phone for “security” reasons. He denied any link between these exchanges and his father’s death.
Martell did not ask him about another element that did not go unnoticed by the investigators and that the magistrate also cites in her order. When the accused transferred the data stored in the cloud to the new phone, he did not download the WhatsApp messages, deleting any conversation before and after Isak Andic’s death.
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The Mossos tried, using external technicians to the police, to recover those WhatsApp messages. They already had the ones exchanged between father and son before the patriarch’s death. Conversations that the judge also refers to in her order and that, for her, show not only a bad relationship but the “pressures” and “emotional blackmail” that Jonathan allegedly exerted on Isak regarding the money issue. The defense of the accused denies such pressures and claims that those conversations between father and son have been “taken out of context” by the Mossos, “misinterpreted,” and that, moreover, they are old. Martell asked Jonathan in court about that relationship with his father, and the accused assured that in recent times it had “improved greatly,” mentioning visits to a German therapist, whom the judge also cites in the order, who had helped them.
Among the evidence with which the defense hopes to refute the indications related to the bad relationship between father and son is the reference to a family trip to Rome of all the members of the Andic saga, shortly before the tragedy.
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