
Investigators are on the trail of a global scam that has conned a series of NHS hospitals out of over £12.5 million, and a hospital cashier leads the high life - taking money meant for patients and putting it in to her own bank account.
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Series 6: Episode 10
Featuring the case of a shopfitter who dodged a whopping £2.5 million in tax to splurge on luxury cars and holidays. HMRC first started investigating after a routine inspe ...
25-07-2025
BBC 1
Series 6: Episode 9
An accountant takes on three different full-time jobs with the NHS – and manages to get paid for all of them, even though he’s barely carrying out the work of one. E ...
24-07-2025
BBC 1
Series 6: Episode 8
When a fire breaks out on an illegal waste site, it costs the taxpayer £500,000 in clean-up costs and unearths an operation responsible for a staggering £4 million i ...
23-07-2025
BBC 1
Series 6: Episode 7
A routine welfare check on a disability claimant exposes deception committed on a vast scale. The fraudster claimed high levels of benefits for 18 years, saying he was paraplegi ...
22-07-2025
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Series 6: Episode 6
A trusted member of the finance team in a local authority dupes his colleagues into signing off fake paperwork so that he can transfer hundreds of thousands of pounds of public ...
21-07-2025
BBC 1
Series 6: Episode 5
The Environment Agency gets called in when a waste site flouts the rules and local residents start complaining. The facility is supposed to be a plastics recycling plant, but lo ...
18-07-2025
BBC 1
Series 6: Episode 4
The story of Britain’s biggest ever benefit fraud and how the fraudsters were brought to justice. It all started when staff at the Department for Work and Pensions noticed ...
17-07-2025
BBC 1
Series 6: Episode 3
The NHS Counter Fraud Authority investigates a shocking case of a trusted GP practice manager who fiddled the books for years to siphon hundreds of thousands of pounds into her ...
16-07-2025
BBC 1
Series 6: Episode 2
Trading Standards uncover a massive illegal puppy farm where animals are being used to make tens of thousands of pounds, not a penny of which is declared to the tax authorities. ...
15-07-2025
BBC 1
Series 6: Episode 1
Documentary series following the dedicated fraud fighters pursuing the criminals who steal billions of pounds a year from the public purse. \n\nIn this episode, the Environment ...
14-07-2025
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Series 4: Episode 6
A leading Cambridge academic steals nearly £3 million of government grants meant for environmental research, then smuggles bundles of cash out of the country inside empty ...
17-08-2022
BBC 1
Series 3 (shortened Versions): Episode 2
Series following the dedicated fraud-fighters pursuing the criminals who steal £40 billion a year from the UK’s public purse. In this episode, a painstaking seven-ye ...
30-05-2023
BBC 1
Series 4: Episode 2
In this episode, a trusted senior doctor abuses his position to steal nearly £70,000 from the NHS and his colleagues, and a family callously defrauds the benefits system f ...
10-08-2022
BBC 1
Series 6: Episode 1
Documentary series following the dedicated fraud fighters pursuing the criminals who steal billions of pounds a year from the public purse. \n\nIn this episode, the Environment ...
14-07-2025
BBC 1
Series 4: Episode 10
An NHS accountant takes lucrative jobs at three different hospitals at the same time while also scamming dozens of innocent victims out of tens of thousands of pounds. HMRC bust ...
23-08-2022
BBC 1
Series 6: Episode 4
The story of Britain’s biggest ever benefit fraud and how the fraudsters were brought to justice. It all started when staff at the Department for Work and Pensions noticed ...
17-07-2025
BBC 1
Series 4: Episode 8
A fraudster hands out public sector contracts worth over £1 million in return for kickbacks from his cronies, a mum is caught out fraudulently claiming disability benefits ...
19-08-2022
BBC 1
The Hunt: Episode 2
The hunt is on for a ruthless fantasist who has defrauded our NHS of thousands, and a cold-hearted insurance cheat exploits the horror of the Manchester bombing.
01-03-2022
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Series 4: Episode 4
In this episode, a trusted NHS veteran steals equipment worth over £15,000 and then sells it online. A callous fraudster launches a malicious campaign of hoax 999 calls &n ...
15-08-2022
BBC 1
Series 3 (shortened Versions): Episode 1
Series following the dedicated fraud-fighters pursuing the criminals who steal £40 billion a year from the UK’s public purse. In this episode, a personal betrayal at ...
29-05-2023
BBC 1