“We are deeply concerned to hear last night’s media allegations and unauthorised comments attributed to a Crown employee.”

Mr Todisco’s LinkedIn profile describes him as an “experienced and optimistic security services manager” at Crown casino.

The investigation, which involved an infiltrator filming and recording from inside the National Socialist Network, found the group’s leaders are liaising with outlaw bikie gang associates, a prison skinhead gang and members of international neo-Nazi terror groups.

ASIO director-general Mike Burgess has warned that Australians as young as 16 are being radicalised to support a white-power race war, a phenomenon fuelled by the COVID-19 pandemic.

The chair of the Anti-Defamation Commission, Dvir Abramovich, said on Monday morning that the investigation was a timely wake-up call and a reminder that violent extremists were a real threat.

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He called on the federal government to designate the National Socialist Network a terrorist organisation.

“These neo-Nazis, determined to accelerate their movement’s deadly ideology, are on a recruiting drive, trying to reach new audiences and attract disaffected young white men, just like Brenton Tarrant, to their evil cause,” he said.

“It is no surprise that they are engaged in an unprecedented outreach effort of mobilising, since their aim is to translate their online incitement and vilification of Jews and other minorities to real-world action.

“No one should be surprised if such activities end in violence, or worse, since the followers of the National Socialist Network are enmeshed in a conspiratorial and hateful world that promotes the notion that the white race will be extinct unless radical action is taken.”

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