Kattankudy:  A Saudi-educated scholar is arrested for the links with Zahran Hashim, the suspected ringleader of the Easter Sunday bombings.

In a statement, police said, "Information has been revealed that the suspect arrested had a close relationship with ... Zahran and had been operating financial transactions,"

Mohamed Aliyar is the founder of the Centre for Islamic Guidance, which boasts a mosque, a religious school and a library in Zahran's hometown of Kattankudy, a Muslim-dominated city on Sri Lanka's eastern shores.

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The statement said Aliyar was "involved" with training in the southern town of Hambantota for the group of suicide bombers who attacked hotels and churches on Easter, killing over 250 people. A police spokesman declined to provide details on the accusations.

Reuters was unable to find contact details for a lawyer. The government says Zahran, a radical Tamil-speaking preacher, was a leader of the group.

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The source told Reuters his hardline views were partly shaped by ultra-conservative Salafi-Wahhabi texts that he picked up at the Centre for Islamic Guidance's library around 2-3 years ago. The sources are not affiliated with the centre.