Jakarta  - Indonesian police arrested a Muslim militant for his alleged role in channeling money to fund last month's deadly bombings at two luxury hotels in Jakarta, media reports said Wednesday.

Mohammad Jibril, alias Muhammad Ricky Ardhan, 29, was arrested by anti-terror police Tuesday afternoon, hours after he was named as a suspect in the July 17 attacks at the JW Marriott and Ritz-Carlton hotels, which killed nine people including two suicide bombers and wounded 53 others.

The state-run Antara news agency quoted national police spokesman Nanan Soekarna as confirming Jibril's arrest on his way from work to his parents' home just outside south of Jakarta.

He was being interrogated by the Densus 88 anti-terror police unit, Soekarna said.

Jibril is the eldest son of Mohammad Iqbal, alias Abu Jibril, a Muslim preacher who was arrested in Malaysia several years ago for ties with Jemaah Islamiyah, an al-Qaeda-linked regional terror group. Iqbal was then deported to Indonesia.

In 2005, Iqbal was detained by the Indonesian police for two weeks after a bomb exploded in his front yard. But he was later released after the police failed to find evidence linking him to terrorist activities.

Police on Tuesday named the younger Jibril a suspect for his alleged role in the financing of the hotel attacks.

Police also said another man, suspected to be a Saudi national, was charged with funding the hotel bombings after having been detained for seven days. Authorities suspect that funding for the attacks came from overseas.

Fugitive Malaysian-born militant Noordin Mohammed Top, South-East Asia's most-wanted man, is the prime suspect in the coordinated bombings.

Police intensified their hunt for Noordin after he eluded a police raid this month in Central Java, in which an alleged accomplice was killed.

Noordin, believed to be the leader of a splinter group of the radical Islamist network Jemaah Islamiyah, is also accused of masterminding the 2003 suicide bombing on the same Marriott hotel in Jakarta, which killed 12 people, and the 2004 attack on the Australian embassy in the Indonesian capital, in which 11 people were killed. (dpa)