Nairobi  - Kenyan police are carrying out DNA tests on a man suspected of being a key financier of the Rwandan genocide, in which almost 1 million people died, reports said Saturday.

The man, who police say could be Rwandan businessman Felicien Kabuga, was arrested in Nairobi on Friday, the BBC reported.

Local media reported that the man arrested claims to be a lecturer at a Nairobi university.

The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) accuses Kabuga of financing the massacre of 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus in the 1994 genocide.

Kabuga, who has a 5-million-dollar price on his head, has several property and business interests in Nairobi.

He has been spotted in several bars popular with middle-class Kenyans and expats in the capital's affluent neighbourhoods.

The ICTR has been pressing Kenya to arrest Kabuga and the high court recently froze his assets. (dpa)