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A fatcat uni boss who told MSPs he didn’t know his own £421,667 pay spent £47,000 on luxury foreign junkets in just two years, we can reveal.

University of Edinburgh vice-­chancellor and principal Sir Peter Mathieson racked up £42,456 on business class flights to destinations including South Africa, South Korea, the US and Hong Kong between March 2022 and May last year. ‌

Our investigation uncovered £3059 spent on accommodation, and £1336 on transport in Milan, London, Texas, Brussels, Warsaw and Hong Kong from September 2023 to last July. ‌

It comes as his lecturers are set to walk out in a dispute over a refusal to rule out compulsory redundancies as part of plans to save £140million.

The principal, who took the role in 2018 appeared at a Holyrood committee last wee

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