Keith Vaz, MP for Leicester East, is the subject of a call for an ‘unexplained wealth order’

A Tory MP has called for a criminal investigation into a Labour MP using new laws designed to tackle McMafia-style gangsters.

Andrew Bridgen has written to Lynne Owens, head of the National Crime Agency, requesting that she open an inquiry into Keith Vaz, the MP for Leicester East, using an “unexplained wealth order” — a measure introduced in the Criminal Finances Act last year.

Citing publicly available reports, Bridgen alleges that Vaz “has amassed an eight-home UK property empire valued at over £4m, despite earning a salary of around £90,000”.

In the letter Bridgen also claims that Vaz paid for at least one of his homes with cash, has further property in India, sent his son and daughter to a fee-paying school and has previously