Former British minister Mr Keith Vaz should be suspended from the House of Commons for one month, the Committee on Standards and Privileges ruled today.
The committee found Mr Vaz had committed "serious breaches" of the MPs' code of conduct, as well as a contempt of the House of Commons.
The committee said it would have been satisfied with an apology from Mr Vaz for those complaints against him which it upheld, if it had not been for the way in which he responded to the allegations investigated by Parliamentary Standards Commissioner Mrs Elizabeth Filkin.
The committee agreed with Mrs Filkin in not upholding a series of detailed complaints about Mr Vaz's relationship with Indian businessmen the Hinduja brothers.
But it went on to say that Mr Vaz had provided "misleading information" to the committee during the last term of parliament, and to Mrs Filkin, about the financial relationship between his family and the Hindujas.
It also criticised Mr Vaz over the way he responded to the investigation into the complaints against him.
The committee said: "In his response to the investigation of the complaints against him since February 2000, Mr Vaz failed in his duty of accountability under the Code of Conduct by refusing to submit himself to the scrutiny appropriate to his office as a Member".
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