BOGOTA (Reuter) - Jose Orlando Henao Montoya, identified by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration as one the top Colombian drug lords still at large, surrendered to authorities in Bogota on Monday. Henao, who DEA chief Thomas Constantine labeled "a major player" in Colombia's underground criminal empire, turned himself in at the chief prosecutors' office. His surrender came just three days after Bogota's El Tiempo newspaper ran a picture of him at a church baptism in which he was identified as "the new king of drug trafficking in Colombia" and its "capo de capos". The only outstanding warrant for Henao's arrest was mysteriously revoked in July because of what a spokesman for the prosecutor's office described as a technicality and said that Henao, a 44-year-old former police officer, remained under investigation on at least two drug-related charges, including illicit enrichment and money laundering, and added he would be held without bail under a new arrest warrant to be issued late on Monday. Henao's lawyer was quoted by local radio as saying he had turned himself in to clear his name. But senior police officials

have said repeatedly that Henao, a reputed head of the so-called Norte del Valle or North Valle drug cartel, was the heir apparent of the jailed leaders of the Cali drug cartel and the only top Colombian trafficker who is not dead or behind bars. He was believed responsible for a mob-style hit in a Cali restaurant last year in which a son of Miguel Rodriguez was seriously injured and six of his bodyguards and lunch companions were shot dead. Meanwhile, a shadowy group set up by Colombia's drug capos said on Monday it had reactivated its "military wing" to fight against government plans to lift the country's ban on extradition. Colombia's Congress is debating a government-sponsored bill to lift the country's six-year-old ban on sending accused drug traffickers and others abroad to stand trial.