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JAKARTA, Saturday (Reuters) The chairman of Indonesia's election commission was arrested overnight after being named a suspect in a corruption probe that has badly tainted the once respected organisation, officials said.

Investigators from the Anti-Corruption Commission, known by its Indonesian acronym KPK, arrested Nazaruddin Sjamsuddin around midnight on Friday and took him to a police jail cell.

His arrest came just days after prosecutors arrested the former CEO of Indonesia's largest bank in a separate graft investigation that analysts said signalled President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono was serious in tackling endemic corruption.

The head of the KPK unit probing the case, Tumpak Hatorangan Panggabean, said on Friday Sjamsuddin admitted receiving $45,000 that the investigator said was from firms that won contracts related to the holding of Indonesia's elections last year.

Sjamsuddin then took investigators to his home and returned the money, less $100, Panggabean told reporters around midnight on Friday.

"The result of the investigation is he admitted receiving $45,000," Panggabean said.

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