Sabas Pretelt de la Vega
Sabas Pretelt de la Vega | |
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Minister Pretelt in Brazil in August 2006 | |
| Colombia Ambassador to Italy | |
| In office October 4, 2006 – September 8, 2010 | |
| President | Álvaro Uribe Vélez |
| Preceded by | Luis Camilo Osorio Izasa |
| Succeeded by | Juan Manuel Prieto Montoya |
| Colombia Ambassador to Greece | |
| In office 2006 – September 8, 2010 | |
| President | Álvaro Uribe Vélez |
| Preceded by | Luis Camilo Osorio Izasa |
| Succeeded by | Juan Manuel Prieto Montoya |
| Colombia Ambassador to San Marino | |
| In office February 20, 2007 – September 8, 2010 | |
| President | Álvaro Uribe Vélez |
| Preceded by | Luis Camilo Osorio Izasa |
| Succeeded by | Juan Manuel Prieto Montoya |
| Colombia Ambassador to Malta | |
| In office May 10, 2007 – September 8, 2010 | |
| President | Álvaro Uribe Vélez |
| Preceded by | Luis Camilo Osorio Izasa |
| Succeeded by | Juan Manuel Prieto Montoya |
| Colombia Ambassador to Cyprus | |
| In office September 4, 2007 – September 8, 2010 | |
| President | Álvaro Uribe Vélez |
| Preceded by | Luis Camilo Osorio Izasa |
| Succeeded by | Juan Manuel Prieto Montoya |
| 2nd Minister of the Interior and Justice | |
| In office November, 2003 – August 22, 2006 | |
| President | Álvaro Uribe Vélez |
| Deputy | Luis Hernando Angarita Figueredo |
| Preceded by | Fernando Londoño Hoyos |
| Succeeded by | Carlos Holguín Sardi |
| Personal details | |
| Born | April 11, 1946 Cartagena, Bolívar, Colombia |
| Political party | Conservative |
| Spouse(s) | Pilar Arango Gomez (divorced) Ana Luisa de Zubiría
(m. 2006) |
| Children | 4 |
| Alma mater | University of the Andes University of Valle |
| Profession | Economist |
Sabas Pretelt de la Vega (born April 11, 1946) is a Colombian economist and businessman, who served as Colombian Minister of the Interior and Justice, and Ambassador to the Colombian missions in Italy, Greece, Cyprus, San Marino, and Malta. He was sentenced to six years and eight months in prison in April 2015 for corruption after the Yidispolítica scandal where Yidis Medina supposedly took a bribe from Pretelt. He was released in April 2018 under good behavior, in which he set up an education system for the soldiers in the naval base he was detained in.