Edgar (La Barbie) Valdez has been whisked into the Witness Protection Program after 12 years of incarceration and will testify for federal prosecutors in an upcoming series of corruption cases against former Mexican officials, per sources. “La Barbie” vanished from the BOP website late last month.

Most of Valdez’s cooperation has had to do with corruption within the Mexican government under former Mexican President Felipe Calderon. He’s expected to be a star witness at the upcoming drug trial of Genero Garcia Luna, Mexico’s top security officer in Calderon’s administration, who was arrested by the DEA in 2019.