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Efraín Cepeda

PEP · Politician

Efraín Cepeda is a politically exposed person. They are a person of interest by virtue of their position and the influence they may hold. They have not been found on international sanctions lists.

Type	Person				[sources]
Name	Efrain Cepeda · Efraín Cepeda · Efraín José Cepeda Sarabia				[sources]
Alias	Efraín Cepeda · Efraín José Cepeda Sarabia				[sources]
Birth date	1950-05-24				[sources]
Place of birth	Barranquilla				[sources]
Gender	male				[sources]
Nationality	not available				[sources]
Country	Colombia				[sources]
Citizenship	Colombia				[sources]
Classification	National government (unknown status)				[sources]
First name	Efraín · Efraín José				[sources]
ID Number	`7455054`				[sources]
Last name	Cepeda · Cepeda Sarabia · Sarabia				[sources]
Political association	Colombian Conservative Party				[sources]
Website	www.efraincepeda.com · facebook.com · twitter.com				[sources]
Wikidata ID	Q5820273				[sources]
Wikipedia Article	en.wikipedia.org				[sources]
Position	Senado (member, 2014-2018) · member of the Senate of Colombia (1994-) · president of the Senate of Colombia (2017-2018)				[sources]
Education	University of the Andes				[sources]
Source link	www.funcionpublica.gov.co · www.funcionpublica.gov.co				[sources]
Last change	2026-04-15	Last processed	2026-04-27	First seen	2019-05-21

Descriptions

Potential red flags: Potential Conflict of Interest: PEP owns shares in a State contracting company. Corporation shares: ECOPETROL, SURAMERICANA DE INVERSIONES, AVIANCA HOLDING, CLÍNICA PORTO AZUL, CASA DE BOLSA

— Colombian Joining the Dots PEPs non-official source, 2023-11-02

Corporation shares: COUNTRY CLUB

— Colombian Joining the Dots PEPs non-official source, 2023-11-02

Colombian businessman and politician

— Wikidata non-official source, 2026-03-31

Relationships

Positions held
Position occupied	Start date	End date
member of the Senado	-	-
Senator	-	-

Data sources

Wikidata Persons in Relevant Categories355,220

Category-based imports from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

MySociety's EveryPolitician Legislators40,464

All members of national legislatures in the world, collected from hundreds of government web sites and consolidated via Wikidata.

Global · MySociety · non-official source

Colombian Joining the Dots PEPs188

Data on Politically Exposed Persons in Colombia from the Joining the Dots project

Colombia · Directorio Legislativo/EITI · non-official source

Wikidata Politically Exposed Persons286,840

Profiles of politically exposed persons from Wikidata, the structured data version of Wikipedia.

Global · Wikidata · non-official source

External databases

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Wikidata337,012

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External dataset · Global · Wikidata · non-official source

PEP position annotations by OpenSanctions545,378

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External dataset · OpenSanctions · non-official source

Source data IDs: co-cedula-7455054 · evpo-28c0e2af-350e-4b8c-aa89-cfcf5dd078e9

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