Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz said Wednesday that there was a financial link between the man accused of slaughtering 50 people at two New Zealand mosques and a far-right group in Austria.

Police on Monday raided the home of Martin Sellner, head of the Identitarian Movement, after learning he had received a donation of 1,500 Euros – about $1,700 – in early 2018 from a person named Tarrant, the same last name as suspect Brenton Tarrant.

Kurz said his government would dissolve the movement, which seeks to preserve Europe’s identity, if investigators determined that it is a terrorist group.

“We are now investigating whether we have a terrorist organization here,” the conservative leader told a press conference. “Radicalism of any kind must be eradicated, and all legal options should be taken.

“If it is indeed the case that it is a terrorist organization, then of course there will be consequences for the organization,” he added.

In a video posted after Monday’s raid, Sellner admitted receiving the donation in an email with the name “Tarrant” in the sender’s address – but has denied any ties to the suspect or the March 15 attack in Christchurch.

“I’m not a member of a terrorist organization. I have nothing to do with this man, other than that I passively received a donation from him,” he says in the photo.

Instead, he has blamed Tarrant for trying to involve him by making the donation — reportedly one of many that the 28-year-old suspect has made to extremist groups.

Tarrant, who traveled extensively throughout Europe, reportedly arrived in Vienna on Nov. 26 and visited several other Austrian cities including Salzburg and Innsbruck, according to Agence France-Presse.

The Identitarian Movement has had several brushes with the law.

In July 2018, Sellner and 16 other of the group’s members were found not guilty of charges of criminal association and hate speech.

However, two of the suspects were found guilty on lesser charges over anti-immigration actions by the group’s members, including storming a university lecture hall during a refugee policy talk in 2016.

In March 2018, British authorities denied Sellner entry to the UK, saying his presence would not have been “conducive to the public good.”

Austria has been governed since late 2017 by a coalition of Kurz’s center-right People’s Party and the far-right Freedom Party, who won after tapping into public anger over immigration.

Freedom Party leader and Vice-Chancellor Heinz-Christian Strache insisted Wednesday that his party had “nothing to do with the Identitarians.”

But Austrian media have reported links between such activists and party members at a local level.

Strache has shared a video promoting the Identitarian Movement on his Facebook page, but on Wednesday said that at the time he thought they were a “counter-cultural youth movement against the left.”

Tarrant publicized a 74-page, hate-filled manifesto shortly before the March 15 attacks, which left 43 worshipers dead at the Masjid Al Noor mosque in Christchurch and seven others at the nearby Linwood Mosque.

He livestreamed the heinous act on Facebook, sparking worldwide revulsion and condemnation.

With Post Wires