Sabas Pretelt de la Vega

Sabas Pretelt de la Vega
Minister Pretelt in Brazil in August 2006
Colombia Ambassador to Italy
In office
October 4, 2006  September 8, 2010
PresidentÁlvaro Uribe Vélez
Preceded byLuis Camilo Osorio Izasa
Succeeded byJuan Manuel Prieto Montoya
Colombia Ambassador to Greece
In office
2006  September 8, 2010
PresidentÁlvaro Uribe Vélez
Preceded byLuis Camilo Osorio Izasa
Succeeded byJuan Manuel Prieto Montoya
Colombia Ambassador to San Marino
In office
February 20, 2007  September 8, 2010
PresidentÁlvaro Uribe Vélez
Preceded byLuis Camilo Osorio Izasa
Succeeded byJuan Manuel Prieto Montoya
Colombia Ambassador to Malta
In office
May 10, 2007  September 8, 2010
PresidentÁlvaro Uribe Vélez
Preceded byLuis Camilo Osorio Izasa
Succeeded byJuan Manuel Prieto Montoya
Colombia Ambassador to Cyprus
In office
September 4, 2007  September 8, 2010
PresidentÁlvaro Uribe Vélez
Preceded byLuis Camilo Osorio Izasa
Succeeded byJuan Manuel Prieto Montoya
2nd Minister of the Interior and Justice
In office
November, 2003  August 22, 2006
PresidentÁlvaro Uribe Vélez
DeputyLuis Hernando Angarita Figueredo
Preceded byFernando Londoño Hoyos
Succeeded byCarlos Holguín Sardi
Personal details
Born (1946-04-11) April 11, 1946
Cartagena, Bolívar, Colombia
Political partyConservative
Spouse(s)Pilar Arango Gomez (divorced)
Ana Luisa de Zubiría
(m. 2006)
Children4
Alma materUniversity of the Andes
University of Valle
ProfessionEconomist

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.