Keith Vaz bought his £387,500 'sex flat' with cash near family home

Keith Vaz paid almost £400,000 for his "sex flat" through a "personal loan" which was exposed by the Sunday Mirror as where he invited young male prostitutes for sex.

The Labour MP purchased the £387,500 two-bedroom flat in cash, with the price equaling four times his salary.

The lawyer for Mr Vaz says it was purchased using a "personal loan" and land register documents show him to be the sole owner.

His family home, worth £2.2million, is located just a ten-minute walk away.

He last met two Eastern European prostitutes there ten days ago, even though he is chair of a powerful parliamentary group probing vice and drugs.

And as the talk ranged from sex to pets at the flat, Mr Vaz eventually said: “We need to get this party started.”

And ahead of the meeting he had sent a series of texts in which he jokingly called himself one of the men’s “pimp” and “bank manager”.

Mr Vaz paid the escorts in cash.

While chair of the Home Affairs Select Committee, Mr Vaz has publicly said he was “not convinced” that men who pay for sex should face prosecution.

A lawyer for Mr Vaz said the loan came from a "traditional lender" and that it would be paid off when the MP's home in Leicester, inherited from his mother, is sold.

It has been on the market for three months, and is now reportedly sold subject to contract.

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