In his head it must have sounded spectacular, but everything starts to smell very bad. The project that was going to turn Salamanca into the new Dubai With 15,000 million euros of investment in the city, it looks like a pufo.
Chairlift, luxury homes, a tram and even a planetarium… All coming from some Arab sheikhs who organized a Congress in the city to stage everything they were going to do in Salamanca.
But a journalist from Salamanca 24h, Javier S. Frailebegan to pull the thread and has discovered that the supposed adviser to the City Council, José María Fuentes, seems to be a fakee.
Fuentes is a friend of the Councilor for Tourism, and had obtained a contract for 50,000 euros to attract investment to the city almost two years ago. The “phony” are the words of the mayor of Salamanca himself, Carlos García Carbayo, who is very angry about the situation.
The prank has already cost the council money, about 36,000 euros. The opposition has asked to investigate the facts and the alleged contracts signed with some businessmen who are doubted as being real sheikhs.